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Rossignol  ·  3766 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share a word

Recently found out that excelsior can be used to refer to wood shavings used to package fragile deliveries or make things spongey. Apparently it was originally a trademarked name for selling the stuff, which is really the only legitimate reason I can think of for calling something as mundane as chaff something as cool as EXCELSIOR.