This collection also highlights how many phrases we take for granted are of nautical and printers’ origins. The English race has always been sea going and our inherited language is filled with sailors’ jargon. And Americans from colonial times were a highly literate people. Ben Franklin might not have been even an historical footnote (pun intended) if he hadn’t chosen printer as his profession.
So Franklin would have been just a flash in the pan?
Maybe that’s just your opinion as an Oriental, Katana.
Franklin was also a brilliant scientist, and that’s not an old wives’ tale.
Can’t go into more detail, It’s the top of the hour and I’m running late.