Chemical element meaning "no life") for "nitrogen". For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting "gold" rather than "aurum" as the name for the 79th element (Au). IUPAC prefers the British spellings "aluminium" and "caesium" over the U.S. spellings "aluminum" and "cesium", and the U.S.
Pot-au-feu lord's land. For people living in towns, it was easier to buy inexpensive pieces of meat, which needed long cooking times. The method of cooking all food together and for extended periods of time (the whole day sometimes) gave what was called a ""pot-pourri"" in French and imported into English in the early 17th century. The relation between "pot-pourri" and "pot-au-feu" was attested in 1829 in the "Etymologic dictionary of the French language: ""Pot pourri. The name our fathers gave to the "pot-au-feu""". The cuts of beef and the vegetables involved vary, but a typical "pot-au-feu" contains: Cooking cartilaginous meat