Humpday Triviola

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Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla

You would get warts if it were a toad?

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John Veerkamp

Comes from the clothing industry where a frog is/was a way of keeping garments closed before buttons. It serves a similar function on the plane.

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Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

Plausable, but my source makes no such referrence.

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Bill Earl

Back in the olden days, it used to be held in place with a ribbit.

Lets be clear

Dale Lenz

The first inventor to use the term "frog" in reference to the handplane was Justus A. Traut, who worked for the Stanley Rule & Level Company in the late 1800s. Apparently Traut and his co-workers started calling the thing a frog because it is just behind the throat�and harkened back to the saying "I've got a frog in my throat.

Lets be clear....that's  correct!

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

I couldn't have said it better myself. Well done sir!

Tom

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Dale Lenz

Believe I've read that before, did not take it seriously, but anyway????

Thanks for the question.