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Date:   Sat, 4 May 2002 07:26:17 -0700
Reply-To:   DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
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From:   DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:   Re: Interesting facts
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Last time this bit of fluff showed up elsewhere on the net someone replied:

>A while ago someone posted a description of life in the 1500's that gave >the derivation of many common words and expressions. I was curious and did >some poking around on the web. It was a good story, just not the facts. > >The Snopes web site actually refers to "some literature floating around the >web" about life in the 1500's. The article was almost completely wrong. >For example it says that people got "trench mouth" from eating off of dried >bread crust plates (trenchers) - when in fact the term trench mouth was >coined in the 1920's and had nothing to do with eating worm ridden bread >(it had everything to do with living in a trench during WW1). If you are >interested go to the www.snopes.com web site and read all the details. BTW >the 1500's article surfaced in APRIL 1999 (what fools we be?). For more >complete (and fascinating) discussion of word origins go to ><www.wordorigins.org> Dave Wilton has done a great deal of work on the >subject on that site. > >Snopes also discusses the Vanilla Vapor lock tale. While it does not >refute it, it does note that the details have changed considerably since it >first appeared in 1971. In the early edition the short time for vanilla >did not allow the vapor lock to occur whereas in the recent edition the >vapor lock did not have time to dissipate ie the story was reversed. > >I think it makes a good story that illustrates the benefit of thinking >"outside the box" - it is such a good example that a web search of "Vanilla >ice cream Vapor lock" gets 393 hits. Alas I have to believe it is an Urban >Legend.

Dave -- Dave Carpenter

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