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Re: fish and chips
Scorbutic is in my dictionary as "having scurvy." Want to get involved in a
discussion of the UK slang "nonce?" :)
I hope they put sugar in their lime juice. Otherwise they might have been
pretty sour.
:)
keets
Actually, H.L. Mencken's book "American English" states that the slang term
refers to the fact that "beginning in 1795, *lime-juice* was issued in the
British Navy....as an anti-scorbutic."
However, I couldn't find "scorbutic" or "anti-scorbutic" in my dictionary.
Oh that Mencken!
So they didn't suck on actual limes. They drank a lime-juice.
- SCHRADE in Akron
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