LL-L "Terminology" 2004.08.26 (06) [E]

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Terminology" 2004.08.25 (02) [E/S]

Dear Kevin Caldwell, & All,

Subject: LL-L "Etymology"

> I don't recall this particular practice (crossing the fingers to be exempt
> from a game) from when I was growing up.

What about 'nix'? There is, I read, a lot of German in the American
background, & I've heard some such use from U.S. boys. The Afrikaans
equivalent is the same, meaning the same, only we spell it 'nieks' This is
not Afrikaans, the cognate in our language being 'niks' pronounced 'n at ks'.
It must be older than our Taal.

> It's always interesting to hear what different people's variations are on
> the "Olly, olly in come free!" call in hide-and-seek.

This sounds like the 'Ollie ollie oxen free' - 'All, all, oxen
free?(guessing) which the English kids here use (meaning the whole herd goes
safe into the paddock, none being kept out for slaughter): A gruesome
bunch - infants.

> Mark's description of the origin of plimsolls/plimsoles was fascinating
but
> this seems to be one of those topics which have become the subject of
> popular speculation and other views certainly exist. My mind boggles at
the
> picture of Victorians playing tennis in rope-soled shoes on wooden floors,
> but maybe I just don't have enough imagination.

They tell me that game is called Real Tennis (from "Royal") as opposed to
Lawn Tennis.

Yrs,
Mark

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