I'm still learning

These are the things I learn-ed from a crossword puzzle with my wife this afternoon, over coffee at the local watering hole:
  • French moms are mares and they go neigh,
  • The most overused place name: Oh Shit! Aaaah!, Nfld. -- originally, of Newfoundland, now many other places around the world, and,
  • On departing China with loads of pasta for the starving Italians, the Chinese waved at Marco Polo and yelled, "Chow!" He responded with a slightly confused, "Ciao!" And the rest, I'm afraid, is history.
OK, maybe you had to be there.

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