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   From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Ian Goddard   
    writes:   
   >On 29/09/17 04:22, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:09:39 +0100, Ian Goddard   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
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   >>   
   >> This raises a question for me -- what does it mean if someone is   
   >> described as a "clothier".   
      
   I had always naively assumed that this word had to do with clothing   
   (tailoring, if you like) rather than cloth, and was pronounced with a   
   long o, as in holier or hosiery. From this discussion, it's clear I've   
   been wrong about what it involved; I'm curious about the pronunciation -   
   was it more like cloth ear? - though I suspect it's now not possible to   
   find out. (I've always been interested in language - it runs in my   
   family [my brother's a lexicographer].)   
   []   
   >and taken it back to market the next week.  There were markets in   
   >Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield.  The wool sellers and cloth   
   >buyers were travelling merchants.  In the C16th there was legislation   
   >to stop the wooldrivers, the salesmen of raw wool, but the threat that   
      
   On what grounds was this legislation passed - i. e. why did they need to   
   be stopped?   
      
   >this posed resulted in the Halifax Act to allow them to continue to   
   >service this area.   
      
   (I take it the "threat" was to the economy of the area.)   
   []   
   Thanks, overall, for a most interesting description of the trade!   
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