> Did you know that before this, people didn't propose with rings whatsoever? That's only true in the most useless technical sense you can imagine. The practic

> Did you know that before this, people didn't propose with rings whatsoever? That's only true in the most useless technical sense you can imagine. The practice of giving a ring to your lover is well attested in traditional English ballads that predate the founding of De Beers. Compare https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/thedarkeyedsailor.html https://mainlynorfolk.info/peter.bellamy/songs/thedarkeyedsa... ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovay Heck, the ring in Dark-Eyed Sailor is undescribed, but the ring in Sovay is called out as a diamond ring. https://web.archive.org/web/20221111150414/http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/15000/10247.gif https://web.archive.org/web/20221111150414/http://ballads.bo...