On Monday, August 6, 2012 at 1:27:08 PM UTC-4, Bill Gill wrote:   
   > I am in an internet discussion group and one of the members has   
   > claimed that the phrase "Born with a silver spoon in his mouth"   
   > came about because rich people used to put a silver spoon in a   
   > babies mouth to protect him/her from plagues and other diseases.   
   > I have searched the web, not extensively, but I couldn't find anything   
   > relevant.  I also checked Snopes and they don't have anything.   
   >   
   > Does anybody have anything to debunk the claim?  I figure that it   
   > won't help, but at least I will be able to say I tried.   
   >   
   > Bill   
      
   Actually silver helped cure some illnesses.  Look under collodial silver   
      
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