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English 245 with Dr.
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The woad plant drawn by Jacob Sturm in 1796, from a smart volume titled Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen. |
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Woad is one of several words in English that may be better left unspoken, for it sounds like "road" with a lisp. Try the extract of its quill-shaped leaves next time you're out for a tattoo: the blue eventually wears off, but it often leaves horrific scars like real oldtime battle wounds that you can wear proudly almost anywhere in Anglo-America.
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Copyright 2008 by Gary Homer Gutchess. |
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