farmer & peasant

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/21/2010 04:32 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>As for "farmer" as an insult, there is a perfectly good "peasant" that
>is used either a denomination of something rustic (e.g., peasant bread)
>or is, in fact, an insult. AFAIK, there has always been a semantic
>distinction between "farmer" and "peasant".

If you were English, you were a farmer; if you were French, you were
a peasant.  (According to the free and independent English.)

Joel

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