It comes 'apparently' from horse racing, holding your cap in your hand
meant you could not whip the horse.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:58:59 +0100 "Greener, Jenny" <[log in to unmask]>
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> As far as know the origin of the word handicap has nothing to do with
> having a cap in your hand!
> Jenny Greener
>
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> From: Gilda Ferrares [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: use of language
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> Dear list-members,
> as a German speaking person I know, that "handicap" is a non appropriate
> term, there is something with " cap in the hand", being a beggar-
> is this the reason, why English speaking people from the disability
> movement reject the term?
> In Austria and Germany journalists and politicians tend more and more to
> use the term "handicap" as foreign word in our language and suppose this to
> be very pc. I realized that there are also different versions of "handicap"
> in French and Scandinavian languages.
> Please give me a quotation ( I think there was one by Mike Oliver) an
> explanation, why to avoid this term! Is there any interest to search for
> the transnationality of such terms, to avoid them in any language. "
> Invalidity" is also an example with a horrible sense!
> Gilda Ferrares
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