Sunday, 19 October 2014

Breakfast word origin



Breakfast means to break the fasting period observed through the previous night (after dinner, a person doesn't have any food till the next morning, as that is considered a period of fasting, the next meal which is in the morning is literally breaking the fast). It was not until the 15th century that the term “breakfast” came into use in written English to describe a morning meal.


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