Dozen
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The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient be
A box of a dozen doughnuts
Half a dozen chargrilled oysters
Lagniappe
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A lagniappe is "a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase", or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure". It can be used more ge
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…only in Texas and surrounding areas for such goods as flowers or baked goods, although can be applied to anything that is counted, such as photographs. Lagniappe Fourteener (poetry…
"We picked up one excellent word – a word worth travelling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word – 'Lagniappe'. They pronounce it lanny-yap... When a child or a servant buys something in a shop – or even the mayor or governor, for aught I know – he finishes the operation by saying, – 'Give me something for lagniappe.' The shopman always responds; gives the child a bit of liquorice-root; (nb...)": Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi (1883)