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To: P.S.N. who wrote (1729)	3/13/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2733

<In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."> Something new every day. I always thought this "p & q" stuff came from the days of setting type by hand. These two 'lower case' letters are mirror images of one another and could be easily confused. Never too late to learn. PW. P.S. I think 'Upper case' and 'Lower case' comes from the hand typesetting days too.