Curious Questions: Did Mark Twain really invent the bra strap?
Country Life Trending: Samuel Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known as Mark Twain. Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images. Credit: Getty Images Samuel Clemens Leghorn — better known as Mark Twain — was a man of many trades besides writing, and one of his inventions is still with us today. Martin Fone explains more. I have always preferred wearing a belt to a pair of braces — or suspenders, as the Americans rather prosaically call them, a perfect example of the opportunities that exist for embarrassing confusion between the versions of English spoken on either side of the Atlantic...
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