→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How Do the Media and Police Estimate Crowd Sizes? https://youtu.be/V00oi5PT540?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 Are you really entitled to a phone call when arrested? https://youtu.be/uQB0xOrIh_U?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0GESJ0DgpgTcThLJVEbFs8 In this video: It took about three more centuries, but this particular insult inevitably became a popular nickname for oft-insulted police officers, with the first documented reference to this being in the Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence, published in London in 1811. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/police-officers-sometimes-called-pigs/ Sources: