idigenious

Updated: June 11, 2025

And the schoolmaster thought that "it would be useful to the foreign powers to see to what height swamp culture had attained in the growth of its idigenious plants." I didn't really understand everything he said there wuz a number more big words in his talk but I presoom he did, and felt comforted to use 'em. Why, as I said, I had boasted that fern wuz as long as my arm.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair