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

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 08:14 PM 6/5/2006, you wrote:

>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.

The word is 'mercer', and somewhere her I have some stuff on the Mercer's 
guilds, but I can't remember where. (Partly the pain drugs, mostly just 
getting old.)

'Lainie
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