I need to say a few words about woodchucks. (First let me pause while you say the tongue-twister to yourself. Go on, you know you want to. Get it out of your system. Good.) I never understood what the word “chuck” was supposed to mean in the rhyme. Chuck isn’t often used as a verb; when it is, its most common meaning is “to throw” (as in, “Chuck that avocado pit in the trash”). This is naturally not the type of thing we expect a woodchuck to be capable of…
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