Double C Answers

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You're right - you should just learn to spell.

Those who control the "Richard Amerike" and "American (word)" pages at Wikipedia disagree with you.

The fact that the first-ever map to include the word America honors Vespucci is pretty solid evidence.

I spent ages trying to think of fresco and never quite getting there

Once again we see that the "Ask Jetpunk comments instead of Google" strategy has failed miserably.

The nearly 30-year feud was a long-running battle between the Hatfield family of West Virginia, and the McCoys who lived across the creek in Kentucky. It began with Civil War skirmishes, flared up again over a hog, then again when a McCoy daughter married a Hatfield son, and eventually there was shooting into and burning of homes. Several family members were killed by the other side through the years, and state militia groups were also involved. A case arising from the feud regarding extradition went to the US Supreme Court. There have been books and movies about the feud, and it has become a common phrase used in the US as in, "Those kids are fighting like the Hatfields and McCoys." The feud is also referred to in the Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson song, Luckenbach, Texas - "This successful life we're living has us feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys." So now you know and didn't have to look it up, but it's a really interesting history and I recommend you do.

It's American Romeo and Juliet. Full of guns and diabetes.

I guess it's the difference between what we think of as (for instance) a Chinese-style dumpling with a filling vs a chicken-and-dumplings style dumpling where it's more like a (American) biscuit. Gnocchi is pretty similar to the latter

29% knowing that fact doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I didn't know it before I became a regular Jetpunk user, but it pops up here from time to time. It's one of many tidbits of knowledge I've learned during my years on the site. I'll admit that I'm not sure about the correct pronunciation, though.