Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog
Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.
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A hodge-podge of "h" duples.
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Today I noticed a bunch of interesting words, mostly nonsense, that all begin with the letter "h":
hanky panky, helter skelter, hoodoo gurus, hodge-podge, Hunca Munca (a character from a Beatrix Potter story), harum scarum, hokey pokey, hoity-toity...
And then of course a Google search led me to this page and this page and this page, where I found a bunch more. Lots more H words: heebbie-jeebies, hee-haw, higgledy-piggledy, hip-hop, hocus-pocus, hoi-polloi, hoochie-coochie, hurdy gurdy, and so forth.