Bacchei

Bacchei
2005.12.12 3:06

I often chose the liquor for its name. Yesterday I found the Japanese Shochu named 'Bacchei'. (Literaly means in Japanese, the pleasure of malts.) Actually the name of this Shochu has nothing to do with Roman Gods, but that happened to be the same pronounciation as their name. If the one who named knew the origin of the word, it is splendid.

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by weierstrass (669421) on 2005.12.14 11:25 (#14252827) (http://retropolitan.blogspot.com/ Last Journal: 2005.12.11 6:29)
..they didn't know the word it's kind of splendid in a different way isn't it?
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by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.12.15 2:03 (#14257030) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.12.18 0:58)
Bacchus is well-known to among ordinary Japanese as God of wine in Greek mythology, but when it comes to Bacchei, I don't think many Japanese know. Originally I thought Bacchei is a plural form of Bacchus assuming from other examples in Greek words. Again I looked it up in search, it was the women of Bacchus. Anyway it sounds great.
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