Temperatures are cooling and the sun is setting earlier: Fall is on the way.

And with it, autumnal goodies like apple cider, pumpkin bread and those all-too-popular pumpkin spice lattes.

But before you take a sip of that cinnamony, nutmegy, clovey goodness, let's dive into the history of the word "spicy" for this installment of Word of the Week.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the earliest evidence for "spicy" is from 1562, in the writings of William Turner, a naturalist and religious controversialist.

"For a long, long time, spicy meant exactly what it is supposed to be: that which is containing spice, or redolent of spice," Anatoly Liberman, a linguist at the University of Minnesota.

But it was around the 19th century, that records show people started to use spicy in

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