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grit / grits / hominy (paid)

  • Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton

09 May 2025 • 5 min read
Photo of a bowl of hominy grits beside servings of scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast

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Collection of sketches of late 19th-century Black workers harvesting and processing pine-tree sap into turpentine
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tarheel / rosin heel (paid)

30 Jun 2025 7 min read
Photo of a pony sticking its head over a wire fence and yawning, showing its teeth

don't look a gift horse in the mouth

The proverb don't look a gift horse in the mouth dates back to antiquity. The phrase’s underlying metaphor is that a horse’s age can be judged by examining its teeth, and it is rude to question something that is freely given. There are calques of the
30 Jun 2025 1 min read
Photo of a lavatory / watercloset

loo

Loo, the British word for a lavatory or toilet is one of those words that has generated endless speculation and myth about its origin. It is almost certainly from the French lieu, meaning place, a euphemism if there ever was one. The English loo doesn’t make an unambiguous appearance
27 Jun 2025 3 min read
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