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 oth

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