"The Medway Handyman" writes:

David in Normandy wrote:
On my last visit to England I bought lots of plumbing associated stuff
(not pipes or fittings as the sizes are different). As a beginner to
plumbing I came back armed with lots of stuff. B&Q were selling tubs
of "plumbers mate

Plumbers Mait actually. I've always thought that an excellent play on
words.

I don't get it. Why is using a pre 17C spelling so good? I'd
always taken it as simply a matter of changing it so that it
could be a trademark.

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Jón Fairbairn
http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2009-01-31)