Comment Re:bugaboos? (Score 1) 633
"It has the same root as bogeyman."
And bogeyman is an English corruption of Boney Man -- short for Bonaparte (yes, Napoleon). The Englishmen of his era disparaged him so much, that they gave his name this connotation of an evil frightening monster.
And bogeyman is an English corruption of Boney Man -- short for Bonaparte (yes, Napoleon). The Englishmen of his era disparaged him so much, that they gave his name this connotation of an evil frightening monster.
