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===========================================<br></div><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="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></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="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.07.16 (03) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="im">> From:
<span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Diederik Masure</span> <span><<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com" target="_blank">didimasure@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>> Subject: LL-L "Etymology"
2009.07.16 (06) [EN]<br></div><div class="im">>>> had a map in it
(plus an article) on dialect names for black and red currant
in southern Dutch dialects. </div></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I don't know what the map says, but in my Lonerland South
Limburgish the names were:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>- zwatte kroezele</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>- roi kroezele</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I have a feeling <strong>kroezele</strong> comes from the
French <strong>groseilles</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:KarlRein@aol.com">KarlRein@aol.com</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.07.17 (02) [EN]<br><br>
</span><font color="#000000" size="2">
<div>I grew up in New Jersey, and was born in 1931. I thought "gussied up"
was normal all my life, suggesting (a woman) wearing fancy clothes for a
particular event. It comes as a shock that the expression is younger than
I am! I had a connection in my mind with "gusset", which I see (in my
dictionaries) has to do with being appropriately protected with triangular
pieces of armor, and later made of plain cloth. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>My companion, younger than I am, raised mostly in small towns in Texas, has
known the expression "gussied up" all his life, and added, without prompting,
that he remembers old people using it.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I hope someone will come up with an earlier dating - I could swear my
grandmother used the expression, and she was born in 1864 in New Foundland but
raised in New York City and died of old age in the 40s.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Karl Reinhardt </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>In a message dated 7/16/2009 4:21:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" size="2">From: <span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Brooks, Mark</span> <span><<a title="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us" href="mailto:mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us" target="_blank">mark.brooks@twc.state.tx.us</a>></span><br>
Subject: LL-L
"Etymology"<br>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hello Lowlanders:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had the occasion to use a phrase in writing an email
today that I don’t use very often, and I hardly ever hear anyone else use
it. I refer to “gussy up.” To me it means to get all dressed up
for some kind of event. When I checked for the origin, all the resources
said it comes from obscure origin from 1935 – 1940. Do any of you have
any ideas?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mark
Brooks</span></p></font></blockquote></div></font>----------<br><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br><br>Hi, Karl, Mark, Gang!<br><br>For what it's worth, The <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i> suggests that "gussied up" originally at least refer<font size="2">red to any "over-dressed" person, the earliest printed occurrence being in 1940.<br>
<br>The reader is then </font></span><font size="2">asked to compare this (cf.) to <b>Gussie</b> (< Gus < August) which in Australian slang denotes (used to denote?) an effeminate or affected man (which to me seems to include the idea of dandy). The first occurrence</font><font size="2"> of this</font><font size="2"> in print is in 1901.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br></font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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