i submit that alaska/pacific canada is very far away from most of north america. anything north of vancouver might as well be the moon.

"chug" is an onomatopoeia for the noise a mechanical engine makes, which is what chugging a drink from a bottle often sounds like. it has nothing etymologically to do with the Chugach people. "nip [that] in the bud" contains an anti-asian slur... except it doesn't because that's not how words work. Those potatoes are removed potatoes for perfectly appropriate reasons even if the too-longstanding football team name still makes my eye twitch occasionally.

that's not carte blanche to be a 13 year old who found a certain synonym for greedy in a thesaurus, but neither is that what Roger Miller sang about, or what the single-serving milk brand was doing, or what anyone outside of a tiny geographic area means.

ah, gotcha. interesting