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  2. Jeep - Wikipedia

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    Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep have proven difficult to verify. The most widely held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become known as the Humvee.

  3. Thomas Crapper - Wikipedia

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    The word crap is actually of Middle English origin and predates its application to bodily waste. Its most likely etymological origin is a combination of two older words: the Dutch krappen (to pluck off, cut off, or separate) and the Old French crappe (siftings, waste or rejected matter, from the medieval Latin crappa). [13]

  4. Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples jac-lie: Latin: jaceo "to be thrown" adjacency, adjacent, circumjacency, circumjacent ...

  5. José - Wikipedia

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    Popular belief attributes the origin of Pepe to the abbreviation of pater putativus, P.P., recalling the role of Saint Joseph in predominantly Catholic Spanish-speaking countries.) In Hispanic America , the diminutives Cheché and Chepe also occur, as in Colombian soccer player José Eugenio ("Cheché") Hernández and Mexican soccer player ...

  6. J - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 December 2024. 10th letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. For other uses, see J (disambiguation). For technical reasons, "J#" redirects here. For the programming language, see J Sharp. For the Cyrillic letter Ј, see Je (Cyrillic). J J j Usage ...

  7. Documentary hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    J was the earliest document, a product of the 10th century BCE and the court of Solomon; E was from the 9th century BCE in the northern Kingdom of Israel, and had been combined by a redactor (editor) with J to form a document JE; D, the third source, was a product of the 7th century BCE, by 620 BCE, during the reign of King Josiah; P (what ...

  8. Jap - Wikipedia

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    Jap is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese". In some places, it is simply a contraction of the word and does not carry negative connotations [ citation needed ] , whereas in some other contexts it can be considered a slur .

  9. History of the alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the alphabet goes back to the consonantal writing system used to write Semitic languages in the Levant during the 2nd millennium BC. Nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to this Semitic script. [ 1 ]