The Etymological Hour: "How's Tricks?"

This is and isn't and is the patch of grass flattened under the tent I slept in in (in in) Montana beside the Bitterroot River.  Two 't's and two 'r's and two 'o's.  Oo(h).  No 'h'.  That patch of flattened grass.  That flattened patch of grass.  That flattened grass patch.