Show oddities of endlish En clish tariff has an interesting origin it Is derived from the arabic ta rifa meaning an inventory ot of tees fees pal payable able on demand and la Is said to have become current in the following manner A moorish general by name tarifa seized in the year upon a small seaport some twenty miles from what is now gibraltar and the southern southernmost town in europe here he founded a station tor for levying leving toll on all craft trading in the neighborhood and bestowed his narae name upon the place after the manner of constantine alexander and others the word came eventually to signify a schedule of 0 charges and passed into the french italian and lu english |