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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 - 30 November 2007 - Volume 01
</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);">
Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.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"
2007.11.29 (01) [E]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">So is this why the song played at lights
out (as well as at military funerals) is called "Taps"?</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Kevin Caldwell</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From: <span>Mark
Dreyer</span><span> </span><span><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net" target="_blank">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span> <br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Etymology" 2007.11.28 (02) [E]</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dear Mark, Sandy, Ron & All:</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Subject L-Lowlands "Etymology"</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of course, I
immediately wanted to know where the word "tattoo" came from.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My first reaction was
"What?!" And then I found that the <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Oxford
English Dictionary</span></i> agrees with it and it all starts making sense:</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">[In 17th c. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">tap-too</span></i>, a. Du. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">taptoe</span></i> in same sense; f. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">
tap</span></i>
the tap (of a cask), + <i><span style="font-style: italic;">toe</span></i> = <i><span style="font-style: italic;">doe toe</span></i> 'shut'. So Sw. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">tapto</span></i>, Sp. (1706)
<i><span style="font-style: italic;">tatu</span></i>. Cf. Ger. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">zapfenstreich </span></i>, LG. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">tappenslag</span></i>,
Da. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">tappenstreg</span></i>, with the first
element the same, and second element meaning 'stroke, beat'. </span></font><a name="1168e881281163e4_1168b11973cc0bb1_50247584n1"></a></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Although Du. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">tap toe</span></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><span style="font-style: italic;">Tap toe</span></i> = <i><span style="font-style: italic;">doe
den tap toe</span></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><span style="font-style: italic;">Doch hier de tap van toe</span></i> = 'but
here we shut up', or 'say no more'.]</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I'd just like to cast a bit of military light on this:</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gesondheid... Hic!</span></font></p>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Mark</span></font><br></div>
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