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In roman times pipes were made from lead, and plumbers are named after the latin word for lead, plumbum.
Plumbers work with pipes. From the distant (Roman) past until fairly recently, when we realised it can poison the water running through it, water pipes tended to be made from Lead. Lead is 'Plumbum' in latin. (I know, laugh it up...) So people who worked with lead were 'Plumbarius' which has been corrupted to Plumber.
Plumbing gets its name from the Latin plumbum, the word for lead.Lead was used for centuries in plumbing as it was soft enough to be easily worked. However, it is a toxin and it was found that some traces of lead were getting into the water passing through the pipes - and was accumulating in people's bodies.
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