Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 00:50:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Slang attack


At 03:39 PM 1/11/02 +0000, The Peccary wrote:

>Limey = British person.
>
>In the olden days sailors in the royal navy used to suck on limes to 
>prevent scurvy, so foreign types started to call them 'limeys'.  Over time 
>the term came to be used as a slang term to describe all british people.


It was a Big Deal when this cure was discovered.  Eventually it led to the 
discovery of niacin; Vitamin C.

Which, by the way,  was first isolated from the chile pepper, WHICH IS AN 
AMERICAN FOOD.

Oops.


carpo