On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:37, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > In there it says something about salting a mine with nuggets. It also > says something about salting a dictionary with invented words. Well, > I'm not a miner, and I don't understand the dictionary thing either, but > maybe this gets us one step closer to understanding where this term > comes from.
"To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. [Cant]" http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=to%20salt%20a%20mine Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
