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