68: chocolate Feb 14, 2015

Happy Valentine's Day everyone. Today's word is 'chocolate'. Some of you may have noticed and wondered why the word for chocolate in many European languages is similar. The reason is that at the time when Europeans had come upon chocolate, global trade was not only possible, but common and easily done. This is why many languages do not have vastly different words for especially modern technologies, with some exceptions (such as the French word for computer, 'ordinateur'). When chocolate was brought back from the Americas, Europeans kept a similar word to the Nahuatl [Aztec] word 'chocolatl'.