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Why Trades Still Say Apprentice, Journeyman, Master
The words apprentice, journeyman, and master survive intact almost nowhere except the manual trades — and that's not because the trades are old-fashioned. It's because in a licensed trade, the title *is* the credential. This episode traces the real lineage: Roman collegia that didn't survive the empire's collapse, twelfth-century Genoese contracts, thirteenth-century guild ordinances, and the apprentice/journeyman/master ladder that historians keep warning us was never as tidy as the story suggests. Along the way: why "journeyman" has nothing to do with journeying, the German Walz that still…
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