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Holy Shit - I will never think about Eli Whitney the same again...(Cotton Gin โ> Cott-engine)
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Cotton Gin โ> Cott-engine
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So basically some racist dumbass heard "cotton 'gin" instead of "cotton engine", wrote down the former, and now we're stuck with the name for the rest of history?
Well.. fuck.