Re: Good Enough for Folk Etymology

Crapper, from Thomas Crapper, the people who made the first
porcellien flush toilets?

Hooker, from Fightting Joe Hooker, who was famous for allowing
camp followers along, called "Hookers Girls".

I expect there is more, wierd is when you get a word that is
based on a persons name, when there maybe good word that could
be used, but it is not..

Brand names..

Coca Cola = from Coca the plant the original Coke was partially
made from?

Pepsi = I belive it is from a name of either that it Peps you
up, or the drug/chemical that is common in it, was like Pepside?
So you felt Peped up?

Fun when people forget the origin of a word and its history.

Mike



----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 1:57 AM
Subject: Good Enough for Folk Etymology


> Let's think up some entertainingly spurious derivations for
common words
> and phrases.
>
> Barbecue - From "Bar Becu", Jewish surname, mentioned in an
apocryphal fragment
>
> "And in those days there was drought, and great famine in the
land. And
> Joseph Bar Becu went to the Temple of the LORD, and there he
made burnt
> offerings, so that the LORD might send rain upon the earth."
>
> Pete