senatorial saucer (1872)

[Mark Mandel]

If memory serves from the "Little House" books, in ca. the 1880s it
was "bad manners" at some schools but normal at home in some rural
areas.

Mark Mandel



On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Benjamin Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I wonder when and why people stopped pouring coffee or tea into the
>> > saucer to cool it.

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