<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">This came up in St. Louis a couple of years ago (on perl discuss forum), but no one mentioned this origin.<div>
<br></div><div>See also "warmonger", "peacemonger" (clearly derived from ironmonger).</div><div><br></div><div>I was aware of this origin, but never got around to mentioning it.</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>
--Don Ellis</div><div><br></div><div>[How I wish the reply-to tag could be fixed to reply to <a href="mailto:kcpm@mail.pm.org">kcpm@mail.pm.org</a> instead of to the originator.]</div></font></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Nicol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com">davidnicol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Apparently an ironmonger is, historicly, a blacksmith.<br>
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<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ironmongers" target="_blank">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ironmongers</a><br>
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