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In NYC the dutch influence remains, in a sad way. aside from place names, and an orange in the city flag, (city flag colors are a sort of turquoise blue, white and orange) the memory of New Amsterdam in NY is reduced to occasionally finding a pair of wooden clog shoes as tourist junk.
wooden clog shoes--more properly called sabots-- and saboteurs are people who clog up the machines of industry, and bind up the works by throwing in there wooden shoes.
saboteurs started out like 'luddite's' or 'jethro tull's'--as peasants fighting industrialization with what ever tools they had at hand.
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We still use the expression "clogging up the works".
I found this in the AHD, which accounts for the unusual spelling of calibre: ------------------------------------------------------------------- sa·bot ( P ) Pronunciation Key (s-b, sb) n. 2)A lightweight carrier in which a projectile of a smaller caliber is centered so as to permit firing the projectile within a larger-caliber weapon. The carrier fills the bore of the weapon from which the projectile is fired; it is normally discarded a short distance from the muzzle. --------------------------------------------------------------------
Now, where did that come from I wonder.
ED.: Is that OK now?
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Geez, dixby, can you stick some CRs in there?
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Carriage Returns! you've sent the page widesy!
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Oh! It was OK on my screen. Thanks for telling me, I'll avoid using it.
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It looked OK on my PC here at work; it was just on the Mac it went widesy.
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I see. the Wonderful World of Simplicity and Perfection!
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In looking the word up in my dictionary, the etymology mentioned "savate" which I have not heard for a long time. savate n. 5Fr, orig., old shoe: see SABOT6 a form of boxing in which stiff-legged kicks as well as punches may be used
WWI doughboys got some "kicks" out of French gendarmes, quite literally. They came home with a little ditty: "The French they are a funny race, The fight with their feet, and fxxx with their face." Much later many Americans adopted view "40 Million Frenchmen can't be wrong."
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