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Word of the day

Remember the part in Alice in Wonderland where she hears the story of the sisters who live at the bottom of a treacle well? Well, I realized today that I still don't know exactly what treacle is. When I first read the book as a kid, I think I concluded that it was something purple and sticky, with a slightly medicinal artificial-fruit taste, kind of like Sweet-Tarts.

Thanks to google, I now know that treacle is the British word for molasses. What an anticlimax.