chocolate

[Victor Steinbok]

Thanks for the clarification--explains why it occurs mostly in
conjunction with Coffi. But there is certainly more than one hit, just
not under that spelling. Incidentally, the page you found can also be
found by looking for Chocolada, so I suspect most "ae" are treated by
Google OCR as plain "a".

And wouldn't your signature by Marcus Amygdalus?

     VS-)

On 3/26/2010 9:18 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
> "Cahvv=C3=A6" is coffee, an exotic word treated as 1st declension, genitive
> singular.
>
> I got no hits for "Cahvv=C3=A6" (pasted from your post, with double v and an
> a-e-ligature) in the second link, so I guessed and tried Cahvvae (unligated
> "ae"). One hit, at http://tinyurl.com/y9km9ka -- at leaf 39, section C in
> the original pagination (only right-hand pages are numbered, and each
> half-page has an index letter in the margin). It appears as you gave it, but
> the OCR read it as a+e. My transcription and translation:
>
> Sic non solum Cahvv=C3=A6 aut Coffi decoctum, sed Chocolad=C3=A6, denique herb=C3=A6 The=C3=A9
> Europ=C3=A6i condire saccharo instituti sunt...
>
> So the Europeans established the custom of seasoning with sugar not only the
> brew of Cahvva or Coffi, but of Chocolate, and indeed the herb Tea ...
>
> Marcus Mandelensis
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrot=
> e:
>
>
>> Here are the two books I was going to mention. The first is the volume
>> Chocolata Inda, the second is on tobacco, but includes several mentions
>> of Chocolata, Coffi, Thee and Cahvv=C3=A6 (not even sure what the latter is).
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=3DuSk7AAAAcAAJ
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=3DCHBAAAAAcAAJ
>>
>> At some point, I will actually try to make sense of all this, unless
>> someone beats me to it.
>>
>>      VS-)
>>
>>
>>
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