Salary - Salt - Soldier 🤔 Did Roman soldiers really get paid in salt? Not quite. The word “salary” does genuinely trace back to the Latin salarium, which is connected to sal — salt — but the popular story that Roman soldiers were routinely handed salt instead of wages is almost certainly an oversimplification. A nice example of how a real etymological connection can gradually mutate into a much neater historical story. Follow for more mineral history, geology and science, and subscribe for the

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