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My 43-Year-Old Secret Ingredient! 🍇
Demijohn PART 3
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Questions:
1/ Do you make your own vinegar?
2/ What is your favorite vinegar?
Bonus: ✨
Origin of the word Vinegar (You won't be surprised! 😉)
The word vinegar has a wonderfully literal origin! It comes from Old French and perfectly describes exactly what the liquid is.
Here is the breakdown of how the word traveled into English:
The Etymology Breakdown
- "Vin" comes from the Latin vinum, meaning wine.
- "Aigre" comes from the Latin acer, meaning sour or sharp.
When you put them together in Old French, you get vinaigre, which literally translates to "sour wine." ---
How it entered English
The word entered the English language in the 14th century (around the 1300s) after the Norman Conquest of England, when a massive amount of French vocabulary was absorbed into English.
Over time, the spelling shifted slightly from the French vinaigre to the English vinegar, but the pronunciation and the meaning stayed exactly the same.
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My 43-Year-Old Secret Ingredient! 🍇
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