Why we Scuff

Have you ever scuffed
while walking
with your parent or teacher
grated their ears
heard them
go over and over
about your laziness?

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pg.11, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, V. Hugo

Tannenbaum

If you look at casuarina tree and cassowary bird and find how one got its name from another, good for you.
What caught my attention was the word baum which means a tree in German. Tannenbaum textbook for computer networks is what came to my mind.

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pg 6, The Ten Thousand things, Maria Dermout

Kill in Dutch

is a creek.
I heard of FishKill, NY about 2 years ago. I just read of PeeksKill as T. Coraghessan Boyle's birth place. The obsession stops with CatsKill and WallKill.