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Een heleboel van dit soort 'afkortingen' zijn meer volkspraat dan een feitelijk taalkundige oorsprong

Ze worden met terugwerkende kracht toegepast, zoals ook bij 'fuck' ('Fornicating Under Consent of the King') en 'bob' ('bewust onbeschonken bestuurder') en zelfs SOS ('Save Our Souls'). Dit worden ook wel 'backronyms' genoemd.
Volgens Wiki:
"The etymology of the term "drag queen" is disputed. The term drag queen occurred in Polari, a subset of English slang that was popular in some gay communities in the early part of the 20th century. Its first recorded use to refer to actors dressed in women's clothing is from 1870.
A folk etymology is that drag is an acronym of "Dressed Resembling A Girl" in description of male theatrical transvestism.
Queen may refer to the trait of affected royalty found in the personalities of many who do drag (whether this is their normal personality or a character created for the stage). It is also related to the Old English word "quean" or cwene, which originally simply meant "woman", then was later used as a label both for promiscuous women and gay men (see Oxford English Dictionary definition number 3 for "queen"). The OE word apprears derived from Middle Dutch quene ("old woman"), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ ("woman"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn ("woman").
Drag as a term referring to women's clothing worn by men has less clear origins. According to one theory, it was used in reference to transvestites at least as early as the 18th century, owing to the tendency of their skirts to drag on the ground.[citation needed] Another possibility is that it derives from the Romani word for skirt, which appears in a number of Romani dialects of Northern Europe with forms like daraka and jendraka."quote:
Die term is bijna 100 jaar na 'drag queen' ontstaan, gewoon als logische tegenhanger
[ Bericht 11% gewijzigd door Dingest op 23-04-2016 23:18:02 ]