To: wideawake
‘Too bad for them that the OED cites the usage of the term “hooker” for prostitutes at least as early as 1845.’
And Gen. Hooker was around at that time, too, no?
7 posted on
11/29/2007 5:35:24 AM PST by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
However, the term "hooker" was used in print as early as 1845, years before Hooker was a public figure
11 posted on
11/29/2007 5:40:18 AM PST by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: the OlLine Rebel
And Gen. Hooker was around at that time, too, no? Hooker was a young officer in Seminole country at the time - I hardly think that his last name would have become so synonymous with prostitutes by the time that he was thirty that the word would be used in a local North Carolina newspaper matter-of-factly and without explanation as if it were a well-known term.
Hooker was an anonymous nobody in 1845.
15 posted on
11/29/2007 5:44:36 AM PST by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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