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Dodi Schultz
January 3rd, 2007, 07:26 PM
>> Nowadays, "manufacture" has lost its original meaning of made by
>> hand, in fact it probably means exactly the opposite - made, but not
>> by hand - how our language changes.

Weird, yes. I was thinking about that, too! I guess the original
implication was made by [human] hand, as opposed to occurring naturally.

--Dodi