<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>My tongue was in my cheek. 27 years in USAF and Army. I have heard the word long sgo but not in many years. Karl</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:10px;color:#575757">Sent on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® III</div></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Lowlands Languages & Cultures <lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org> </div><div>Date:01/22/2015 05:03 (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: Lowlands Languages & Cultures <lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Lowlands-l] LL-L "Phonology" 2014.01.30 (01) [EN-NL] </div><div><br></div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/01/2015 4:01 AM, Lowlands
Languages & Cultures wrote:<br>
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<div>No it is short for "a spoon of Tang" in southern. Breakfast
drink. What else could it be??😆</div>
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From French "putain." Word first appears 1910, but probably gained
currency during WWI.<br>
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Ed Alexander<br>
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