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UTUSN

(70,683 posts) Fri Nov 8, 2013, 10:47 PM Nov 2013

This is why the North won the Civil War: Quality and productivity

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This is why the North won the Civil War: Quality and productivity (Original Post) UTUSN Nov 2013 OP

The word "shoddy" comes to us from the Civil War era Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #1

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1. The word "shoddy" comes to us from the Civil War era

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Fri Nov 8, 2013, 10:58 PM

Nov 2013

when suppliers of the Union Army were making uniforms from a kind of recycled woolen material called-- you guessed it-- shoddy. Almost immediately after uniforms made from this material were introduced, "shoddy" came to refer to something that looked like it could fall apart at any moment.

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