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 term "common name" is not much used to contrast with "proper name", but some linguists have used the term for that purpose. Sometimes proper names are called simply "names"; but that term is often used more broadly. Words derived from proper names are sometimes called "proper adjectives" (or "proper adverbs", and so on), but not in mainstream linguistic theory. Not every noun or noun phrase that refers to a unique entity is a proper name. "Blackness" and "chastity" are common nouns, even if blackness and chastity are considered unique abstract entities. Few proper names have only one possible referent: there