[Magdalen] Mardi Gras.

[ME Michaud]

About oregano:
a food historian told me it was so beloved by the ancient Greeks
that they carried both the plant and the seeds along with them
and that you can track Greek colonization around the Mediterranean
more accurately by finding wild-growing oregano
than excavating theatres.
-M, off to church


On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
wrote:
>
> A few years ago I noticed that my beloved copy of Webster’s New
> International Dictionary (second edition) lists "oregano" as a foreign
> word, in a footnote.
>