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   Dallas Hinton to Alexander Koryagin:   
      
   DH> Excellent question - turns out that the process was sort   
   DH> of patented!   
   DH>   
   DH>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_leather   
   DH>   
   DH> ..patent leather is a fine grain leather that is treated   
   DH> to  give  it  a glossy appearance. An early reference to   
   DH> patent leather is in the  1793  British  periodical  The   
   DH> Bee,  or  Literary Weekly Intelligencer, which notes, in   
   DH> an article entitled "Hand's  patent  leather",  that  "a   
   DH> gentleman  of  the name of Hand" in Birmingham, England,   
   DH> obtained a patent for preparing flexible leather  having   
   DH> a  glaze  and polish that renders it impervious to water   
   DH> and need only be wiped with a sponge to  restore  it  to   
   DH> its original luster.   
      
   Whereas  patent  medicine  is  a  patent fraud.  What is the   
   difference in the pronunciation of `patent' in the first and   
   second occurences in the previous sentence?   
      
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