Sunday, March 11, 2007
Licorice
"I grow old always learning many things," said Solon (fragment 18 = γηράσκω δ' αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκόμενος). Only yesterday I learned that the word licorice, which doesn't look Greek to me, comes from glykyrrhiza (γλυκύρριζα) = sweet root.
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