This came up in St. Louis a couple of years ago (on perl discuss forum), but no one mentioned this origin.
See also "warmonger", "peacemonger" (clearly derived from ironmonger). I was aware of this origin, but never got around to mentioning it. --Don Ellis [How I wish the reply-to tag could be fixed to reply to [email protected] of to the originator.] On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Nicol <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparently an ironmonger is, historicly, a blacksmith. > > http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ironmongers > > -- > "In the case of an infinite collection, the question of the existence > of a choice function is problematic" > _______________________________________________ > kc mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc >
_______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
