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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 - 29 November 2007 - Volume 01
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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(200, 137, 0);">
Mark Dreyer</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</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">Dear Mark, Sandy, Ron & All:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Subject L-Lowlands "Etymology"</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of
course, I immediately wanted to know where the word "tattoo" came
from.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><font color="navy" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;"></span></font> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><font color="navy" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;"></span></font><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">My first reaction was "What?!"
And then I found that the </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Oxford English Dictionary</i><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> agrees with it and it
all starts making sense:</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">[In 17th c. <i>tap-too</i>, a. Du. <i>taptoe</i> in same
sense; f. <i>tap</i> the tap (of a cask), + <i>toe</i> = <i>doe toe</i> 'shut'.
So Sw. <i>tapto</i>, Sp. (1706) <i>tatu</i>. Cf. Ger. <i>zapfenstreich </i>, LG.
<i>tappenslag</i>, Da. <i>tappenstreg</i>, with the first element the same, and
second element meaning 'stroke, beat'. <a name="1168b11973cc0bb1_50247584n1"></a></font><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2">Although Du. <i>tap toe</i> was in military use in our sense 1 in the
17th c., there is reason to doubt if this was its original use. <i>Tap toe</i> =
<i>doe den tap toe</i> 'put the tap to', 'close or turn off the tap', was app.
already in colloquial use for 'shut up! stop! cease!'; Dr. Kluyver points out,
in a play of 1639 from Emden, <i>Doch hier de tap van toe</i> = 'but here we
shut up', or 'say no more'.]</font></div></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I'd just like to cast a bit of military light on
this:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The 'tattoo' is associated with nightfall & the last
parade exercise, before curfew. This is the significance to the soldier of the
order (to purveyors of spiritous liquors) "Tap toe!" = "Taps shut!" In the same
sense the British tapman calls out to his guests in the pub, "Time, gentlemen,
please!" When the sutlers hear it they seal their casks & that drink
you're still busy with is your last, @#%&*+...it! Well, back to unit lines,
if you can still walk, & help a buddy if he needs it.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Gesondheid... Hic!</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Mark</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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