[Sca-cooks] Word usage was Re: remove vs course

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> Hey, I like that! It's short, sweet, and, like medieval and all of  
> that!

It's the first word that came to me when I thought about what I'd  
call "merchant's row" with a view toward sensible periodicity...

>
> There was a trend for awhile for merchants to set up outside of a  
> city's
> gates, and just outside of the range of the authorities (mostly  
> tax). A bit
> more dodgy than what you might find in the official market, but  
> they seem
> to have made some money, or they wouldn't have done it. Sometimes I  
> wonder
> about setting up a couple of booths outside of the usual merchant  
> are at an
> event. Problem is, most folks wouldn't get it.

How do those people think cities grow? That market, and the houses  
around it, eventually become permanent, and the city ends up  
expanding its walls...

Adamantius