Hvor stammer ordet loppemarked fra?
Flea market
En anden teori går ud på, at "loppemarked" er en almindelig engelsk kalkering af det franske marché aux puces (bogstaveligt talt "loppemarked"). Den første henvisning til dette udtryk optræder i to modstridende historier om et sted i Paris i 1860'erne, som var kendt som marché aux puces (loppemarked).
Flea market
Another theory maintains that "flea market" is a common English calque from the French marché aux puces (literally "market of the fleas"). The first reference to this term appeared in two conflicting stories about a location in Paris in the 1860s which was known as the marché aux puces (flea market).
Flea market