Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:31:23 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: Dutch request



More specifically, the two dozen or so Dutch slurs contained in Farmer &

Henley's late Victorian era slang dictionary are annotated with the note that

they (Dutch auction/concert/consolation/treat/uncle/wife/...) arose during the

17th century herring wars in the North Sea, and most (but not all) evidently

have gradually disappeared as those wars have receded in memory. --Larry