To All Thanks for all your responses to the T, Tee, Tea Shirt saga, must say David we certainly started folks looking into their Trivia books, and It's great to see some humour on a Friday.
Maurice >---------- >From: Duane J Marcroft[SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, May 09, 1997 11:06AM >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: RE: The World Factbook Help Page > >To All, > >According to the trivia source I have "T Shirt" comes from Training >Shirt". They were shirts used in college and high school gyms during >training or excerise sessions. Supposedly the acronym from"Training to T" >came about during the late 1920's or early 30's. The manufacturer or >supplier of T shirts to schools listed the shirts in inventory in a >shorthand form as "T Shirts" and as we know the name stuck. > >Duane > > >On Fri, 9 May 1997 bmcewen%[email protected] wrote: > >> From: NAME: BERNARD MCEWEN >> FUNC: 10687 Eng Product Certification >> TEL: 613-274-6500 <BMCEWEN@A1@K> >> To: NAME: MX%"[email protected]" <MX%"[email protected]"@MRGATE@K@WPC> >> >> Followers of George W or George R, >> >> I thought tee-shirts were so called because they were shaped like >> the letter 'T'. Are you sure that your Boston Tea Party isn't a >>bit >> of reverse etymology? The phrase derived from the practice of >> adding a large pinch of salt to suspicious titbits that one was >> asked to swallow springs to mind. >> >> Best wishes, Bernie. >> >
