Saturday, May 07, 2005
0 comments- in the phrase cotton gin, gin is Georgia slang for "engine"
- Disgruntled French weavers destroyed many automatic cotton looms when they figured out that you could throw a wooden shoe into the loom and cause it to jam. The French word for these wooden shoes is sabot, and so became the word saboteur.
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