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by dman-os 1023 days ago
Coffee fails the test in my locale which is interestingly the supposed origin[0] of the drink/plant. We call it Buna in Ethiopia and it's a big symbol/part of the national identity not to mention the most important export commodity.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee

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This sort of makes sense, almost everyone else in the world learnt of coffee directly or indirectly via Arab-speaking people and so use their name for it, but Ethopians had it first and so have their own word for it.
interestingly in my locale the language is arabic and one of the names of coffee is "Bun"
Here in Spain it's 7:43am, and I'm enjoying my daily cup of Ethiopia Yirgacheffe right now.