英语词汇all foreign fruit plants are free from duty的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	all foreign fruit plants are free from duty
词源	all foreign fruit, plants are free from duty. This is the classic example of the importance of proper punctuation. In the 1890s a congressional clerk transcribing a new law was supposed to write: “All foreign fruit-plants are free from duty” but changed the hyphen to a comma and wrote: “All foreign fruit, plants are free from duty.” Before Congress could amend his error, the government lost over $2 million in taxes.
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