saltmakestheworldgoround wrote:
> Hello i have just joined after being very pleased to find this
> discussion board! Am at Bournemouth University UK completing a
> dissertation on prehistoric and romano-british salt production in
> Poole Harbour UK. I recently came back from Austria (stayed in
> Hallstatt) as i wanted to broaden my knowledge of different
> techniques and see more about the importance of salt through time.
> It was fascinating! I am also collecting all known phrases and
> actions that we have in our society connected to saly-i.e 'salt of
> the earth'. If anybody knows of any please let me know! Look
> forward to discussing the greatness of salt!!
>

To rub salt in one's wounds.
salt of youth.
not made of sugar or salt - not to be disconcerted by wet weather.
salt and sorrow in her tears.
virtue in my tears.
with a grain of salt.
with a pinch of salt.
salty language as in "swears like a sailor".
catch birds by putting salt on their tails
to eat salt with (a person) - eat with
to eat a person's salt - eat with
bread and salt.
throw salt over your shoulders - when spilt at table.
worth one's salt - referring to value of a person to pay him salary.
he is salt all through - referring to a seafaring man.
attic salt - see attic - simple refined elegance, pure, classical -
attic wit
a salt-celler is often referred to as a salt.
a salt marsh or salting.

You really *must* get hold of the Oxford English Dictionary and look
through all of the hundreds of words that relate to salt. Just a few
include "salary" and "Salaria", "saliva", prefixes of "Hal" (speaking of
Hallstatt <grin>), "Salz, "Sal", "Sol". Then there are "muria" and
"muriate", "Sealtan", "Salte", "Salinelle" and some other gems such as
in Hebrew "Salt" means King.

One of my favorite related words is "wich", "wyck" or "wych" or "wietch"
(or plural, e.g., "wiches") with relationship to names of salt making
towns (the group of salt making buildings), e.g., "Middlewich",
"Nantwich". Also refers to the building in which the brine is
evaporated - "Wich-House" or "Wich-Work" or "Wychwerke"; the man who is
employeed in salt making "Wich-Man"; the boiler "Wich-Waller"

Regards,

-=mark=-