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L O W L A N D S - L - 10 April 2011 - Volume 03<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color:#5B1094">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
LL-L "Literature" 2011.04.09 (01) [NDS]</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">To all the
“clinkingclangers” In LL</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Do not forget
the “Clink” , a slang word for jail. Probably akin to Dutch “klink”, a door
handle. Stores used to have a bell behind the door which would “clang” or
if you will “jingle” when you lifted the doorhandle.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Met
vriendelijke groeten,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Jacqueline BdJ</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Seattle</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">, WA</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">. USA</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Etymology</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Jacqueline, and great
to hear from you, neighbor!</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">English “clink” in the sense
of ‘prison’ is attested since 1770 and is supposed to go back to 16th-century “to
<i>the Clynke</i> on Clink Street in Southwark, on the estate of the bishops of
Winchester, which was perhaps so called from the sound made by chains or metal
locks (see clink (v.)). <i>To kiss the clink</i> "to be imprisoned"
is from 1580s, and the word and the prison name might be cognate derivatives of
the sound.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The verb “clink”: “late
14c., echoic (cf. Du. klinken, O.H.G. klingan, Ger. klingen). Related: <i>Clinked;
clinking</i>. The noun in the sound sense is from c.1400.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><<a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=clink&searchmode=none">http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=clink&searchmode=none</a>></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I am wondering if this is an
English-internal development or if Middle Dutch or Middle Saxon influence played
a lexical role. My educated guess is that “to kiss the clink” is an English idiomatic
impression.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Dutch: <i>klink</i> ‘door-handle’<br>
Low Saxon: <i>Klink</i> ‘door-handle’</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">German: <i>Klinke</i> ‘door-handle’<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">By the way, idiomatic in both
German and Low Saxon of Germany: <i>Klinken putzen</i> (“to polish door-handles”)
‘to go door to door (usually in the sense of wanting to sell something)”.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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