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by mhh__ 2518 days ago
Similar to Hoover <=> Vacuum Cleaner
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ncmncm 2518 days ago
And Crapper, supposedly. But that's disputed.
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Sniffnoy 2518 days ago
That's not disputed, that's just straight-up false. The earliest record of the word "crap" -- and that's counting just "crap", not the earlier words it's derived from -- is in 1846, when Thomas Crapper would have been just 9 years old.
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foldingmoney 2518 days ago
A case of nominative determinism?
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