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

[Mark Hendershott]

At 08:14 PM 6/5/2006, you wrote:
>Sue Clemenger wrote:
>
> >Oh, hey, that works! (maire has a doh! moment, and smacks herself on the
> >forehead)
> >Do you refer to the sellers/retailers by terms other than "merchant?" It's
> >always seemed less than optimal to me, somehow, and I'm not actually
> >familiar with more period terms for the kinds of sellers we often
> >see--butchers and bakers are pretty obvious, but sellers of books? fabrics?
> >household goods?
> >
> >
>
>I don't really have a problem with "merchants" as a catch-all term, but
>if there's a specific name I can use (tailor, baker, etc.), I use it.  A
>book-seller is probably best called a book-seller :-), but I don't know
>what the best term for a fabric-seller would be.  Maybe just
>wool-merchant or linen-trader.
>
>--
>Adele de Maisieres
A draper perhaps

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir