--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "skiallsix" <emailscot@...> wrote:
Don't worry about the harsh comments rprosdc. Etiquette is a foreign word to many of these pros.
In all this fray I just had to interject some humor and history.
"Etiquette" actually is a foreign word unless you are French, which struck me as funny.
Dictionary.com had this to say:
1750, from Fr. étiquette "prescribed behavior," from O.Fr. estiquette "label, ticket" (see ticket). The sense development in French perhaps is from small cards written or printed with instructions for how to behave properly at court (cf. It. etichetta, Sp. etiqueta), and/or from behavior instructions written on a soldier's billet for lodgings (the main sense of the O.Fr. word).
This from Word-Origins:
Etiquette is, almost literally, `just the ticket'. The primary meanings of French étiquette are `ticket' and `label' – and indeed it is the source of English ticket. A particular application of it in former times was to a small card which had written or printed on it directions as to how to behave properly at court – hence it came to mean `prescribed code of social behavior'.
~FK
