What is Thomas Crapper?
[[File:Thomas_Crapper.jpg|150x150px|Thomas Crapper|alt=Thomas Crapper|thumb]] '''Thomas Crapper''' ([[Baptism|baptised]] 28 September 1836, died 27 January 1910) was an [[English people|English]] [[plumber]] and [[Businessperson|businessman]]. He founded the plumbing equipment company Thomas Crapper & Co in [[London]]. Notability of him with regard to [[Toilet|toilets]] has often been too highly stated. This is mainly because of the [[publication]] in 1969 of a [[fiction|fictional]] [[biography]] by [[New Zealand]] person Wallace Reyburn, who makes [[funny]] things.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Eschner|first=Kat|date=28 September 2017|title=Three True Things About Sanitary Engineer Thomas Crapper|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-true-things-about-sanitary-engineer-thomas-crapper-180965008|magazine=Smithsonian|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=Smithsonian Institute|access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> Another way he can be noted is that some say the word ''[[crap]]'' comes from his name. Actually, it is a [[Middle Ages]] origin. The most likely [[etymology|etymological]] origin of the word ''crap'' is a combination of two older words: the [[Dutch language|Dutch]] ''krappen'' (to pluck off, cut off, or separate) and the [[Old French]] ''crappe'' ([[wikt:shifting|shifting]]s, waste or rejected matter, from the medieval [[Latin]] ''crappa'').<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cra1.htm |title=World Wide Words |access-date=11 April 2010 |archive-date=7 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407161136/http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cra1.htm |url-status=live}}</ref> == References == <references /> {{person-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Crapper, Thomas}} [[Category:1910 deaths]] [[Category:Toilets]] [[Category:Plumbers]] [[Category:Year of birth unknown]]