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@TomK
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on: England: Housing Market Shows Signs Of Stress
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Maybe: nothing propels the credit mechanism as the mortgage market
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@xz
12 May
True. Interesting etymology:
mortgage
late Middle English: from Old French, literally ‘dead pledge’, from mort (from Latin mortuus ‘dead’) + gage ‘pledge’.
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@TomK
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Etymology is always treacherous
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@xz
12 May
I think I'd like that engraved on my tombstone when I go.
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