Talk:Margaret Clap
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[1] suggests that her date/year/cause of death is unknown, so I changed this. If someone has a better source, please update. anthony 警告 17:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
She was a pioneer of sorts. It's a sad story. Makes you wonder if her whole life was lived just so we can know gohnonera as "the clap".
[edit] Folk/False etymology: "Mother Clap" and "the Clap"?
I'm looking into the etymology for "the clap" and it seems that it predates Mother Clap. I still need better sources, but www.wordsmith.org [2] lists the first known usage of "the clap" as 1587. Unless someone can refute, I'm going to mark that as a folk etymology. It seems that would be more consistent with the Gonorrhoea article as well. Thanks, Throbblefoot 06:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
- My copy of The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (University Press, 1966, p. 179) states that the word "clap" is "of uncertain origin", but notes the Old French clapoir meaning "venereal bubo", & the obsolete Dutch word klapoore, which it quotes a definition from one Hexham as meaning "botch or Soare in the Groin, gotten from a whoare". -- llywrch 01:52, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
