2020: mocha Jun 26, 2020

Plenty of homophones are not actually related to one another, like 'stalk' for a plant or for a stealthy pursuer. 'Mocha' is a coffee drink and also a type of sheepskin leather, but these actually are related to each other. The word came to English in the late 18th century from 'Mocha', a Yemeni port out of which the coffee and leather were shipped.

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