Homebrew PCBs

El 17 Oct 2009, a las 15:02, Bip's escribió:
>  to solder copper pipes with lead for indoor plumbing (side note:  
> plumbing derive from french "plomb" for lead (Pb in chemistry)),  
> hence the more modern butane heated soldering irons.

I thought "plumber" came from the Latin derivation. Then again, the  
Latin in the French word "plomb" can easily be seen. Of course,  
English is so irregular because it freely pirates words from any  
other language with wild abandon, and no one cares - English seems to  
liberally want to incorporate words from every country remotely  
nearby :-)