Talk:klop

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Churchill[edit]

Anecdote has Chuchill calling a hole-punch for papers, for use with treasury tags, a klop or clop.

Sources differ over which secretary fetched a 14 or 15 volume history by Onno Klopp, in a rather unlikely tale arising form confusion over the meaning of the onomatopoeic word.

  • https://richardlangworth.com/common4 Grace Hamblin
  • The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (Boris Johnson) Kathleen Hill
  • Winston Churchill by his Personal Secretary: Recollections of The Great Man - Hill
  • Churchill By Himself - Hill

Also used fictionally of Maggie Hope in Mr Churchill's Secretary

Rich Farmbrough, 17:12, 22 March 2016 (UTC).Reply