[lit-ideas] Re: School Daze/The Modern World
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:44:57 -0700
Ursula wonders
And Bobbies are called Bobbies because....
...the first Metropolitan police force in London was brought about
through the Parliamentary efforts of one Robert Peel. The police were
also called 'peelers,' but this seems now an epithet whose use is now
mostly confined to the underworld, if the dialogue in the British
mysteries I fall asleep reading is any guide.
http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/met.htm
Donal knows all this stuff.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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