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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 473887" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Okay, friends. History lesson time. A toilet is called a Crapper because the pommy bloke who perfected the modern flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. My sister has a wonderful newspaper article framed in their toilet. I have it memorised... the article was reviewing a book about this benefactor to humanity.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.polperropress.co.uk/page/book/flushed_with_pride/" target="_blank">flushed with pride - the story of thomas crapper - Polperro Heritage Press ,Publisher, Worcestershire</a></p><p></p><p>The review on my sister's loo wall finishes with, "Many great inventors have had their names memorialised in the names of their inventions. Think of the macintosh, the davenport, wellingtons. Poor Thomas Crapper - he didn't have a chance."</p><p></p><p>And sorry, Loth, but "store high in transit" is not where that word comes form. I recall being taught at school that is was an Old English (Anglo-Saxon) word in common usage, not with any offensive connotations at all until the French became the ruling class in England. Then Anglo-Saxon words became the more vulgar usage and the French words considered more genteel. So we have the name of the animal, for example, from Old English, and the name of the food it produces becoming Middle English words (from the French. So the peasants would say "cow" and the cook in the castle would serve "beef" or "veal". And yes, some of our other favourite four letter words are also Old English in origin.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/baloney.php" target="_blank">"<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />" is not an acronym</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****" target="_blank">Four-letter word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p><p></p><p>Snopes also has an interesting entry, but it draws heavily on the wikipedia reference above.</p><p></p><p>And yes, I'm a laugh a minute at trivia nights!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 473887, member: 1991"] Okay, friends. History lesson time. A toilet is called a Crapper because the pommy bloke who perfected the modern flushing toilet was Thomas Crapper. My sister has a wonderful newspaper article framed in their toilet. I have it memorised... the article was reviewing a book about this benefactor to humanity. [url=http://www.polperropress.co.uk/page/book/flushed_with_pride/]flushed with pride - the story of thomas crapper - Polperro Heritage Press ,Publisher, Worcestershire[/url] The review on my sister's loo wall finishes with, "Many great inventors have had their names memorialised in the names of their inventions. Think of the macintosh, the davenport, wellingtons. Poor Thomas Crapper - he didn't have a chance." And sorry, Loth, but "store high in transit" is not where that word comes form. I recall being taught at school that is was an Old English (Anglo-Saxon) word in common usage, not with any offensive connotations at all until the French became the ruling class in England. Then Anglo-Saxon words became the more vulgar usage and the French words considered more genteel. So we have the name of the animal, for example, from Old English, and the name of the food it produces becoming Middle English words (from the French. So the peasants would say "cow" and the cook in the castle would serve "beef" or "veal". And yes, some of our other favourite four letter words are also Old English in origin. [url=http://www.etymonline.com/baloney.php]":censored2:" is not an acronym[/url] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/****]Four-letter word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] Snopes also has an interesting entry, but it draws heavily on the wikipedia reference above. And yes, I'm a laugh a minute at trivia nights! Marg [/QUOTE]
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