CHAT Re: Dutch v or f (was: Grimm's Law)

Maarten wrote:
>In Dutch, we have a very famous invented word, namely the word "fiets" for
>bicycle. It was invented by the participant of a contest in the first half
>of this century, where the contest was specifically intended to yield a new
>word for this invention.
>
I wonder if that was possibly influenced by the popular US (vaudevillean
~parodied) Negro expression, "Feets, do yo' stuff!", said when exiting
hastily.  Might date from the same period