Citrus Delight Cocktail

There are various cocktails with this name, this is mine (ah, my cocktail, not my name).

Ingredients (per cocktail)

2 ounces orange juice

2 ounces triple sec

1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

1 1/2 ounces club soda

ice

piece of orange slice for garnish

In a cup, mix together the orange juice, triple sec and lime juice. Pour over ice into a glass, add the club soda and give a brief stir (not too much, you don't want the fizz to diminish). Garnish with a piece of orange slice.

WORD HISTORY:

Sedge-A large group of grassy and reed type plants that grow in and around wetlands. "Sedge" is related to "saw" (cutting tool), a word more clearly related when you see that English once spelled "saw" with a 'g' (as 'sagu'), and its German cousin still spells it with a 'g' (as 'Säge'), and it is distantly related to "sect" and to words using "sect" (like bisect, insect, intersect, sector, etc), with "sect" borrowed from Latin, but with French reinforcement. "Sedge" goes back to Indo European "sek," which meant "cut." This gave Old Germanic "sagjaz," a plant name with the underlying notion of "a plant with leaves that cut." This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "secg," with the same meaning, and this then became "segge" before the modern version. German has "Segge," which was taken and used in written German circa 1700 from Low German (Segge/Segg). "Segge" tends to be more commonly used in northern Germany, which is the ancient homeland of Low German, but all Germans are taught standard German (Hochdeutsch) in school. "Saher" is more common in southern areas, although there are dialect forms too, such as, "Sacher." As with "Segge," "Saher" and the dialect forms also go back to the same Indo European base "sek," and they are related to German "Säge," which means "saw," the cutting tool. Dutch has "zegge," West Frisian "sigge."