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Old 03-01-2004, 05:36 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally posted by aphex140
They had to eat limes to prevent jaundice, hence limeys.
Scurvy, actually.

Interesting theories about the frog legs and the Parisian swamps. I always assumed that it was the similarity of the words themselves that gave rise to the epithet. The initial "fr", the general length of the word, etc.
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