Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know

Mark J. Reed scripsit:

> True enough.  Whenever an infinitive for "modal can" is called for,
> "to be able to" is used.  "To can" refers to the process of putting things
> in cans.  :)
More broadly, to put in vacuum-sealed containers of any kind: when ordinary
people rather than factories can things, they generally use glass jars.

Hence the jest "We eat all we can [are able to], and what we can't [eat],
we can [in glass jars]."

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