One says "rabbit rabbit" on the first day of the month, per ancient custom dating back oh at least two or three centuries, which is impossibly old by the standards of many barely literate peoples in the British Isles. Long time. My first post (early this morning) was waffling on after the customary late night jaunt through the lower depths with the bookseller last night, and because of stuff in my head I wrote about pig cultures in East Asia after returning from smoking my morning pipe around Nob Hill. So, belatedly, rabbit rabbit.
And here is an illustration of a rabbit to mark it.
Among the first tribes in what is now the Netherlands, where my acestors hail from, were the Kaninefaten, which word is per popular custom translated as "rabbit snatchers", becaause of the mistaken assumption that kanin is the same as konyn, rabbit. This is actually incorrect. It actually refers to leeks and onions as crops. They were a tribe very similar to the Batavi, but not as large a group. They may have enjoyed consuming rabbits, who knows, but that isn't certain. The etymological root of their name is as yet unclear to me.
For a great many years I assumed a connection to rabbits.
Which was totally incorrect.
Leeks and onions.
Inter allium.
Rabbit rabbit.
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