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Our word "salary" comes literally from the vulgar Latin salarium, "salt...
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Bill Bryson
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The Mother Tongue: English and
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Our word "salary" comes literally from the vulgar Latin salarium, "salt money"-the Roman soldier's ironic term for what it would buy.
( Bill Bryson )
[ The Mother Tongue: English and ]
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