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OP Branny, did you happen to follow either of the links in today's Word? I found this (bolding added): chapman (CHAP-man) noun
A peddler; a merchant.
[From Old English ceapman, from ceap (trade, bargain), from Latin caupo (shopkeeper or innkeeper) + man. The German equivalent is Kaufmann, Dutch koopman.]
I probably have never heard the word chapman spoken. Do you-all still use koopman?
As to his other link, to colporteur, that is another word that I didn't know about in earlier times; and now all I can think of when I see it is Cole Porter.
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Q. for zmjezhd and Faldage: is the Latin caupo related to the L. word for head?
Edit--I take it back: I had a school friend whose last name was Chapman. I heard that name spoken!
Last edited by Jackie; 09/23/11 01:42 AM.
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