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Most 16th- and 17th -century French words ending in "-on" are spelled with "-oon" when borrowed into English, like Martha Washington's BOOKE of COOKERY, a handwritten cookbook that the first First Lady's family had brought to the New World, contains the first known recipe.
Slate Articles Dan Jurafsky 2011
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