The word “sommelier”, or wine waiter, may have stemmed from the old French words “sommerier”, “somier”, and “bête de somme”. In this old French language, a “bête de somme” was a “beast of burden” and the “sommelier” was its herdsman. ... If the sommelier died, his...
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But an hour later, Mombidi sent “six husky henchmen” with a demand for corn from Hayes’ garden. He chased them off; they loosed a bull in his garden; the Azande gardeners chased the (bloody) bull back to Mombidi’s village; and Hayes “took the herdsman in hand, he being rather...
Learning Another LanguageTashi Tsehi is in the sixth grade at the Experimental Primary School of Qamdo Prefecture,Tibet Autonomous Region.Besides Tibetan,the native language of her ethnic group,the 14-year-old from a former herdsman's family can now speak fluent putonghua (mandarin Chimese).Howeve...