History of sugar sugar" (Traditional Chinese: 砂糖) for what the West knows as "table sugar". In the year 1792, sugar rose by degrees to an enormous price in Great Britain. The East India Company was then called upon to lend their assistance to help in the lowering of the price of sugar. On 15 March 1792, his Majesty's Ministers to the British Parliament, presented a report related to the production of refined sugar in British India. Lieutenant J. Paterson, of the Bengal establishment, reported that refined sugar could be produced in India with many superior advantages, and a lot more cheaply than in
Proper noun but a few, referring for instance to mountain ranges or groups of islands, are plural (e.g. "Hebrides"). Typically, English proper nouns are not preceded by an article ("the" or "a") or other determiners (not, for instance, "a John", "the Kennedy", or "many Hebrides"). Occasionally, what would otherwise be regarded as a proper noun is used as a common noun, in which case a plural form and a determiner are possible (for instance "the three Kennedys", "the new Gandhi"). Current linguistics makes a distinction between proper nouns and proper names; but this distinction is not universally observed, and sometimes it is