How did the expression 'to go Dutch"come into being?

TabbyTom

There are quite a few uncomplimentary expressions about the Dutch in English: the oldest ones have their origins in anti-Dutch feeling that was stirred up by commercial wars between the English and the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Others are later coinages, inspired by the older ones. Some seem to have arisen in the US in the nineteenth century, and may have been due to feelings against the numerous German (”deutsch”) immigrants. A “Dutch treat” is an entertainment to which everyone has to contribute (i.e. it’s not a “treat” at all). The phrase seems to originate in the US: Partridge says it arose about 1875, and the OED has a quotation from 1887. “Going Dutch” seems to be a development of this: the OED has a quotation from Sinclair Lewis’s “Our Mr Wrenn” (`1914). Nov 19 05, 6:19 PM

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