The State Legislature of Maryland prepared to vote on secession in 1861 to join the Southern Confederacy but Federal troops were sent to squash their attempt.
Dear Author,
The Federal troops did not squash the attempt - they quashed the attempt.
Slight pet peeve about those two words.
Interesting. I have been reading Washington Irving and
at the time they did not say splashed but plashed.
Not that that is the same thing, just curious.
Hmmm. When I was a kid back in Oklahoma, we used to "squish" bugs that attracted our attention for some reason or other. That usually connoted a somewhat juicy end for the unfortunate bugs in question.
Now, I grow squash in my backyard garden (true). I squish bugs that try to make meals of my efforts, thereby quashing their attempts to despoil my squash.