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

[Adele de Maisieres]

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. 

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Adele de Maisieres

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