dont tread on me

短语

英文释义

短语
  1. Archaic spelling of don't tread on me. alt-of,archaic
    — For the first flag adopted for an armed force raised for the Independence was a rattlesnake with the slogan, "Dont Tread on Me."

词源

The phrase was initially rendered as dont tread on me, without apostrophe, as dont was then an accepted contraction of do not. In some later versions, due to standards for apostrophes becoming more strict since the 18th century, the first word was changed to don't.
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