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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 28 November 2007 - Volume 04
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span>
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<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
Roland Desnerck</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:desnerck.roland@skynet.be">desnerck.roland@skynet.be</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2007.11.28 (02) [E]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">Beste Ron, Mark en allen,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">In verband met "taptoe" lees ik in het Etymologisch
Woordenboek van Prof. J. Vercoullie (een Oostendenaar!), 1925, op blz.
344:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">taptoe v.: vergel. Ndd. tappenslag, Zw.
tappeni!gen, Hgd. zapfenstreich. De betek. is wel doet den tap toe (zoo ook slag
op den tap om hem toe te doen), namelijk in de herbergen, als men moet ophouden
drank te bestellen. uit het Ndl. komt De., Zw. tapto, Eng. tattoo. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Toetnoasteki,</font></div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
<div><font size="2">Roland Desnerck</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Oostende, West-Vlaanderen.</font></div></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">
Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span><span class="lDACoc"></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology"
2007.11.28 (02) [E]<br>
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Hi Mark and Ron. That was quite an eye opener.
I had no idea that "taptoe", the melody that to this day is played at lights
out in Military and Boy Scout circles had that meaning.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">But it is logical. Fun!!! Jacqueline <br></span></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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