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Speedy deletion of Smith and Pepper Jewelry Manufacturing
A tag has been placed on Smith and Pepper Jewelry Manufacturing, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

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origin of the phrase 'traffic jam'
phrase origin "traffic jam"

this phrase has been dated back to sometime in the mid 17th century, it comes from a colloquial saying from Britain and has since spread around the world. it comes from from the words traffic and jam. specifically the plant known in the UK as the traffic berry or traffic plant genus Ribes #REDIRECT [] which has a growth habit similar to that of the fire weed #REDIRECT [] which grows alongside railway lines. the traffic berry used to follow roads in the uk and europe before the advent and replacement of horse drawn vehicles. it had this habit as it requires soil high in organic and nitrogen content to do well, the roadsides of UK before the early 19th century provided these conditions, nowadays the edges of horse menages can often have wild traffic berries growing. the phrase specifically comes from a tradition of harvesting the fruits during standstills on the road, often occurring during mid summer ox cart haulage #REDIRECT [] trains, times of goose fairs and mid winter bad weather conditions. these harvests would often be taken home and turned into jam or other preserve as the fruits themselves were not considered aesthetically pleasing enough for other uses. The traffic standstills during summer when the traffic berry was in season became known as jams or traffic jams due to the tradition of jam making from the berries. this jam was also known as a traffic jam.

Speedy deletion nomination of Origin of the phrase traffic jam


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