Talk:klop
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Rich Farmbrough in topic Churchill
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