Any summer weekend in Canada is likely to be accompanied by copious consumption of beer. Hard though it may be to believe, “beer” was a word used rarely outside of poetry till the 1500s, the common term for the drink being “ale”. “Beer” had been around since the Anglo-Saxons, though, derived in their Germanic language from a monastic Latin word
biber (drink)
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but I always get this idea that 'ale' had something to do with the Latin name of ... garlic ?!
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