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To: frank ballenger

So “Oh Crap” “Clean Up Your Crap! and “Taking a Crap” all originated from the name Thomas Crapper.


15 posted on 03/16/2024 5:49:07 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

Yeah but what a way to be immortalized.

Better to have a street name or a building.

An odd one for me is the way all of us say “okay” a lot.
None of us could reply to “What does ok stand for” but we go one saying it.

Supposedly for “oll korrect” printed in a satirical article about grammar.

Some say it’s for Old Kinderhook.
President Woodrow Wilson thought it evolved from a Choctaw word that he spelled “okeh.” Experts told him he was wrong.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-word-ok-was-invented-175-years-ago-180953258/


22 posted on 03/16/2024 6:08:39 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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