Jack and Jill (nursery rhyme) and brown paper were a home cure used as a method to draw out bruises on the body. Jack is the most common name used in English-language nursery rhymes and represented an archetypal Everyman hero by the 18th century, while Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart by the end of the Middle Ages. However, the woodcut that accompanied the first recorded version of the rhyme showed two boys (not a boy and a girl) and used the spelling Gill not Jill. The true origin of the rhyme is unknown, but there are several
S-form S-form The s-form is the English language phenomenon of suffixing "-'s" or "-s" to business names where there is not one present in writing, predominantly in colloquial speech. This is particularly common with the names of supermarkets. For example "Tesco" could be converted to "Tesco's" in speech, "Safeway" to "Safeways", "Wal-Mart" to "Wal-Mart's", etc. Foreigners come across this form especially as concerns manufacturers; mere retailers like the above examples remain customers' and employees' conversation. For example, the firm Short Brothers (of Belfast) built the aircraft called the Short Sunderland, but the firm is colloquially given as "Shorts". It is most