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Holy crap.. Lest someone mistakenly visit a talk page, expecting to read some truth and hence be confused reading this gentleman's comment and mistaking the writer for someone who knows what they're talking about, I'd just like to point out the above explanation for the word ""handicap"" is complete bollocks. handicap has meant ""to place at a disadvantage"" for a long long time. According to Merriam Webster, the etymology is ""Etymology:
    obsolete English handicap, a game in which forfeit money was held in a cap, from hand in cap"", which obviously has nothing at all to do with being ""Handy with a cap"" or even related to the disabled. Certain individuals may have a negative connotation with the use of the term, which happens merely due to the words close association with 1960's era community welfare practices, but that is an individuals choice to associate negativity with the word, not the words fault at all.  "