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I must pass on -an- entomology from my father who was a shipboard radio operator in the employ of Radio Corporation of America, the company that supplied radio equipment with operator on a lease basis to ship operators. This was in the 1920 to 1930 timeframe when "radio" was "wireless" and the language was text and "community established" abbreviations that were in the best interest of the medium at the time. The encoding was the Arabic alphabet (caseless) with minimal punctuation and numbers translated to continuous wave durations (spark gap transmitters) forming "dots" and "dashes", not unlike "1"s and "0"s in a length optimized "packed" binary; to put it in current context.
With that as my claim of a reliable source; his "origin" of "COP" was that it was the abbreviation used in news broadcasts for Chief of Police. This would be used in the context of, for example: "NEW YORK CITY CHIEF OF POLICE CHALLENGES NEW ORLEANS CHIEF OF POLICE TO COMPETITION REGARDING PAYOFFS." would probably come across the air more like: "NYC COP CHALLENGES N. O. COP TO COMPTSHN RGRDNG PAYOFFS". As the term found it's way outside the "inner circle" of wireless operators, it degraded, dropping the "Chief of" portion for ease of use/understanding, of perhaps just laziness. Tomginva 13:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Gangs of New York says it was derived from the copper badges of the NY police. Too lazy to find it, but I'm pretty sure that's a reliable source. 66.212.213.236 ( talk) 02:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
The term cop is not an acronym for "Constable on Patrol" - that's a recently coined backronym. Is this a reliable enough source to make the change? http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/cop.asp Josh McCartt 19:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
The word Cop did come from the term "copper" which refered to their buttons. Old school cops had really nice uniforms that had brass or copper buttons. This has been known for some time. The entry in Wikipedia is dead wrong and should be changed.
I feel that the whole issue falls under WP:NOT#DICT. Taemyr 06:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC).
So how long did it take for snopes readers to swoop down on this article to fix the misinformation? I must say, I practically pounced when I saw that a false etymology was attributed to Wikipedia. Blueaster 00:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
In the United Kingdom, the term was in use amongst criminal fraternities to refer to the organised Thief-Takers prior to the formation of the Police Force by Sir Robert Peel. The term Capere, Latin via French, means to capture. The Stealth Ranger 12:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
WILCO The Stealth Ranger 11:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
actually, it means to seize. capio, capere, cepi, captus are all the forms. 66.212.213.236 ( talk) 03:10, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
On 8 May 2008, this page was split into an explicit disambiguation page and a page about the word "cop". The page about the word was a mere dictionary definition, something which Wikipedia explicitly is not. The page described only the meaning and alleged origins of the slang word. All that lexical content is already on the Wiktionary page where, frankly, the editors have better tools and resources to confirm alleged etymologies, etc. I have remerged the content and reverted the pagemove. If anyone has new information about the etymology of this word, please add it to the Wiktionary page. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 22:14, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Cop Copine Tekstil ve Çanta üzerine kurulmuş bir firma. 2003 den beri varlar. daha geniş bilgi için: http://www.cop-copine.com.tr —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.96.136.247 ( talk) 12:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was not moved. -- BDD ( talk) 17:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC) ( non-admin closure)
Cop → Cop (disambiguation) – Police officer is clearly the primary topic for this word. Ego White Tray ( talk) 03:25, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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I must pass on -an- entomology from my father who was a shipboard radio operator in the employ of Radio Corporation of America, the company that supplied radio equipment with operator on a lease basis to ship operators. This was in the 1920 to 1930 timeframe when "radio" was "wireless" and the language was text and "community established" abbreviations that were in the best interest of the medium at the time. The encoding was the Arabic alphabet (caseless) with minimal punctuation and numbers translated to continuous wave durations (spark gap transmitters) forming "dots" and "dashes", not unlike "1"s and "0"s in a length optimized "packed" binary; to put it in current context.
With that as my claim of a reliable source; his "origin" of "COP" was that it was the abbreviation used in news broadcasts for Chief of Police. This would be used in the context of, for example: "NEW YORK CITY CHIEF OF POLICE CHALLENGES NEW ORLEANS CHIEF OF POLICE TO COMPETITION REGARDING PAYOFFS." would probably come across the air more like: "NYC COP CHALLENGES N. O. COP TO COMPTSHN RGRDNG PAYOFFS". As the term found it's way outside the "inner circle" of wireless operators, it degraded, dropping the "Chief of" portion for ease of use/understanding, of perhaps just laziness. Tomginva 13:45, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Gangs of New York says it was derived from the copper badges of the NY police. Too lazy to find it, but I'm pretty sure that's a reliable source. 66.212.213.236 ( talk) 02:04, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
The term cop is not an acronym for "Constable on Patrol" - that's a recently coined backronym. Is this a reliable enough source to make the change? http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/cop.asp Josh McCartt 19:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
The word Cop did come from the term "copper" which refered to their buttons. Old school cops had really nice uniforms that had brass or copper buttons. This has been known for some time. The entry in Wikipedia is dead wrong and should be changed.
I feel that the whole issue falls under WP:NOT#DICT. Taemyr 06:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC).
So how long did it take for snopes readers to swoop down on this article to fix the misinformation? I must say, I practically pounced when I saw that a false etymology was attributed to Wikipedia. Blueaster 00:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
In the United Kingdom, the term was in use amongst criminal fraternities to refer to the organised Thief-Takers prior to the formation of the Police Force by Sir Robert Peel. The term Capere, Latin via French, means to capture. The Stealth Ranger 12:05, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
WILCO The Stealth Ranger 11:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
actually, it means to seize. capio, capere, cepi, captus are all the forms. 66.212.213.236 ( talk) 03:10, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
On 8 May 2008, this page was split into an explicit disambiguation page and a page about the word "cop". The page about the word was a mere dictionary definition, something which Wikipedia explicitly is not. The page described only the meaning and alleged origins of the slang word. All that lexical content is already on the Wiktionary page where, frankly, the editors have better tools and resources to confirm alleged etymologies, etc. I have remerged the content and reverted the pagemove. If anyone has new information about the etymology of this word, please add it to the Wiktionary page. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 22:14, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Cop Copine Tekstil ve Çanta üzerine kurulmuş bir firma. 2003 den beri varlar. daha geniş bilgi için: http://www.cop-copine.com.tr —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.96.136.247 ( talk) 12:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was not moved. -- BDD ( talk) 17:41, 11 December 2012 (UTC) ( non-admin closure)
Cop → Cop (disambiguation) – Police officer is clearly the primary topic for this word. Ego White Tray ( talk) 03:25, 4 December 2012 (UTC)