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The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way, by Bill Bryson

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Our word “salary” comes literally from the vulgar Latin salarium, “salt money”—the Roman soldier’s ironic term for what it would buy.

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The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

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