References to wages in some form can be tracked all the way back to Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Rome.
In ancient times salt was highly valued and it was used as a method of trade and currency. Not only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it was a good antiseptic.
In Ancient Rome the busiest road leading to the city was the Via Salaria, the salt route. A soldier's pay, which partly consisted of salt, was known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word salary. A soldier's salary was cut if he "was not worth his salt," an expression still used today. Similarly, the Latin word 'salarium' linked employment, salt, and soldiers and has defined a form of work-for-hire ever since.

I am the salt of the earth.

MightySparrow:
I am the salt of the earth.

So, who's the pepper of the earth?

Zonefree:

So, who's the pepper of the earth?

Pepper isn't the opposite of salt

Another lamba

Zonefree:

So, who's the pepper of the earth?

I know my own,


Maybe you.

Noted. Well-done

Af0nja:



Pepper isn't the opposite of salt

What is…

Pomo?

brain54:

What is…

Pomo?

Do you think every word has an opposite.

The opposite of salt is saltless.

Af0nja:


Do you think every word has an opposite

I should be asking you that boss…

Since You raised the issue.

What is ‘salt less’ is that a pronoun?