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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and it's Ho-Ho Short Stuff.

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We're stealing one potential thing from our Christmas episode just to do a Christmas style shorty to get in the spirit of things. And we're going to be talking about Holly today, like, you know, the plant. It's a shrub. It can be a tree. It's in North America. It's in Asia. It's in Europe. There are a lot of different species. And like I said, some can be little shorty shrubs some can be

big old trees but everyone knows holly for those uh waxy leaves that will draw blood and those

little crimson berries that grow on them yeah but there's something about holly that i did not know

until i was studying was that they bloom in the spring and early summer.

Have you ever seen a holly plant bloom white flowers?

I don't know.

My dirty secret is I don't love Holly just because it's so pointy and sharp.

It's almost like a thorn bush, you know?

Yeah, I have a big old holly tree outside the house. Oh, yeah? It was getting a little thin, so I've started to fertilize it twice a year, and it is not fun to get under there and fertilize the holly. Yeah, that's no good. But it is pretty, and I love all the berries, and I love the birds coming to eat the berries, and I love that the birds love that I love the birds coming to eat the berries, and so on and so forth. So I do have a special place in my heart for Holly. Well, we'll go over the most boring part of this all, which is root words. Holly, it's a Christmas thing, obviously, but it didn't come from the word holy, which you may be surprised about. I wasn't.

Um, Old English will translate it, uh, as Holgen.

Nice.

Uh, Old Norse, Holfer.

Nice.

Dutch, holst.

Nice.

French, uh, what would that be, Frenchy? Ho? How? Nice. Sound? What would that be, Frenchie?

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