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Dave Wilton

21 Feb 2025 • 4 min read
Clip from a mid 19th-century book with the text of “Little Miss Muffet” and a drawing of a sitting girl looking at a spider

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05 Jan 2026 3 min read
A slice of fried scrapple served on a plate with a sprig of parsley

scrapple

5 January 2026 Scrapple is a mush of pork scraps—hence the name—cornmeal, and sometimes buckwheat flour. It is typically fried and served as a breakfast meat. It can be found in the Mid-Atlantic United States, from South Jersey to North Carolina. The Pennsylvania German name for it is
05 Jan 2026 2 min read
1985 Tennessee license plate with the motto “Volunteer State”

voluntary / volunteer

2 January 2026 The adjective voluntary has a rather straightforward etymology. It comes from the Latin voluntarius, meaning willing, of one’s own choice, via the Old French voluntaire. The Latin noun voluntas means will or desire. The first English incarnation of the word is the noun volunte, meaning will
02 Jan 2026 3 min read
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