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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread salt #69276 05/10/02 12:07 AM Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus A alexis member alexis member A Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 148 Melbourne, Aus Maybe someone here can I confirm or deny a long-standing suspicion I've had [yes, I've been too lazy to work it out myself]: is the word salary related to the word salt ? I've heard that Roman soldiers used to get paid partially in salt, because it was a valuable commodity. alexis Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted salt wwh 05/08/02 11:03 PM Re: salt alexis 05/09/02 08:03 AM Re: salt maverick 05/09/02 08:15 AM Re: salt Capital Kiwi 05/09/02 01:13 PM Re: salt Faldage 05/09/02 11:57 AM Re: salt Geoff 05/09/02 12:39 PM Re: salt Faldage 05/09/02 01:42 PM Re: salt wwh 05/09/02 02:46 PM Re: salt wwh 05/09/02 04:32 PM Re: salt of troy 05/09/02 12:06 PM Re: salt Hyla 05/09/02 03:26 PM Re: gabelle wwh 05/09/02 04:51 PM Re: salt wwh 05/09/02 05:11 PM Re: hops wwh 05/09/02 06:53 PM Re: salt TEd Remington 05/09/02 08:02 PM Re: salt Wordwind 05/09/02 08:07 PM Re: salt TEd Remington 05/09/02 08:16 PM Re: salt Wordwind 05/09/02 08:34 PM froggy wofahulicodoc 05/09/02 08:40 PM Off the top of my head TEd Remington 05/09/02 11:51 PM Re: Off the top of my head Wordwind 05/10/02 12:00 AM Re: Off the top of my head of troy 05/10/02 12:03 AM salt alexis 05/10/02 12:07 AM Re: salt maverick 05/10/02 12:13 AM Re: salt AphonicRants 05/10/02 09:49 PM The Cattle acts TEd Remington 05/10/02 01:03 PM Re: The Cattle acts Geoff 05/10/02 01:13 PM The Continental divide TEd Remington 05/10/02 01:22 PM Re: The Continental divide Capital Kiwi 05/10/02 05:29 PM Re: The Continental divide Geoff 05/11/02 06:02 PM Re: The Continental divide wwh 05/11/02 06:23 PM Re: The Continental divide Geoff 05/11/02 10:09 PM Re: The Continental divide Geoff 05/11/02 10:14 PM Re: The Continental divide wwh 05/11/02 10:43 PM Re: The Continental divide of troy 05/11/02 11:16 PM Re: The Continental divide lusy 05/12/02 02:03 AM Re: The Continental divide Geoff 05/12/02 06:05 AM Re: Salt wwh 05/16/02 12:24 AM Re: Salt Capital Kiwi 05/16/02 05:40 PM Re: Salt Hyla 05/16/02 06:25 PM Re: divisions AphonicRants 05/11/02 11:28 PM Re: salt wwh 05/09/02 08:16 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,386 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 790 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 27 LukeJavan8 4 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,570 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,920 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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