Chrysti The Wordsmith: Toponyms - 3

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith. Recently on this series we've been focusing on top and dams or words derived from places. Last time the top him chatter was featured as the name of a style of cheese originally made in the village of cheddar England today in search of top and yams we journey to the island of Cuba and one of its smaller but top inimically significant villages die cuti or as we Americans pronounce it daiquiri daiquiri lies on the southeast coast of Cuba about halfway between Santiago and Guantanamo. The name of the seaside town is also the name of a popular cocktail. And here is one version of how the word became a top in him. In 1985 American mining engineer Jennings Cox was working at an iron mine located near daiquiri purportedly Mr. Cox ran out of Jim Hall entertaining and invented on the spot a drink of rum lime juice and sugar the concoction became a favorite amongst the mining engineers in daiquiri and later in the larger Cuban

cities. Then around 909 a U.S. Navy medical officer named Lucius Johnson who had sampled the drink in Cuba introduced the recipe to the Army and Navy Club in Washington D.C. from there. The beverage slowly worked its way onto the menus of American mixologists F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the first to record the top and ham daiquiri in his 1920 novel. This Side of Paradise. I'm Christie the wordsmith. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.