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Nalle Sjuh: Hmm, ursprunget till ordet "derby"... så här står det i min fasligt dyra bok "Sports talk - a dictionary of sports metaphors" som jag inhandlade för den D-uppsats i engelska som legat i träda sedan -94.

DERBY a derby. A hat with a rounden top and a narrow brim. SOED: 1888.
Source: HORSE RACING. A hat of the type traditionally worn by men at the annual race at Epsom Downs (Surrey, England) which was named after the Earl of Derby, who founded the event in 1780. WNWD; WPO.

Så här svarar etymonline.com: "type of hat," manufactured in U.S. 1850, name appears 1870, from annual Derby horse race in England, where this type of hat was worn. Race was begun 1780 by the 12th Earl of Derby; Parliament always adjourned for it, and the name was used for any major horse race after 1875. Derby the English shire is O.E. Deorby "deer village," from deor "deer" + by "habitation, homestead," from a Scand. source"