"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"soup" writes:
| Bob Hobden popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and
| said
| Mr Crapper has a lot
| to answer for.
|
| Who he ?
|
| http://www.snopes.com/business/names/crapper.asp



One of the interesting things is that his name is NOT the origin
of the word 'crap', meaning defecate. The first record of that
is in 1846, when Thomas Crapper was ten. See:
http://www.plumbingworld.com/historythomas.html
Regards,
Nick Maclaren
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Crap is a German word derived from their word krap and krappenhousem.
Doug.
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