Editing Reggae (section)

==Etymology==
The 1967 edition of the ''Dictionary of [[Jamaican English]]'' lists ''reggae'' as "a recently estab. sp. for ''rege''", as in ''rege-rege'', a word that can mean either "rags, ragged clothing" or "a quarrel, a row".<ref>1967, ''Dictionary of Jamaican English'', {{ISBN|9789766401276}}</ref> ''Reggae'' as a musical term first appeared in print with the 1968 [[rocksteady]] hit "[[Do the Reggay]]" by [[Toots & the Maytals|the Maytals]] which named the genre.

Reggae historian [[Steve Barrow]] credits [[Clancy Eccles]] with altering the [[Jamaican patois]] word  ''streggae'' (loose woman) into ''reggae''.<ref name=NiceupHistory/> However, [[Toots Hibbert]] said:
<blockquote>
There's a word we used to use in Jamaica called "streggae". If a girl is walking and the guys look at her and say "Man, she's streggae" it means she don't dress well, she look raggedy. The girls would say that about the men too. This one morning me and my two friends were playing and I said, "OK man, let's do the reggay." It was just something that came out of my mouth. So we just start singing "Do the reggay, do the reggay" and created a beat. People tell me later that we had given the sound its name. Before that people had called it blue-beat and all kind of other things. Now it's in the Guinness World of Records.<ref>Sturges, Fiona (2004) "[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/frederick-toots-hibbert-the-reggae-king-of-kingston-731003.html Frederick "Toots" Hibbert: The reggae king of Kingston] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424021153/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/frederick-toots-hibbert-the-reggae-king-of-kingston-731003.html |date=2009-04-24 }}", ''[[The Independent]]'', 4 June 2004, retrieved 11 December 2009; cf. many similar statements by Hibbert in recent years. In earlier interviews, Hibbert used to claim the derivation was from English 'regular', in reference to the beat.</ref></blockquote>

[[Bob Marley]] said that the word ''reggae'' came from a Spanish term for "the king's music".<ref>{{cite book|title=Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley|author=Timothy White|page=16|publisher=Owl Books, U.S.|edition=Revised|date=3 July 2006|isbn=978-0805080865}}</ref> The liner notes of ''To the King'', a compilation of Christian [[Gospel music|gospel]] reggae, suggest that the word ''reggae'' was derived from the Latin {{lang|la|regi}} meaning 'to the king'.<ref name="McAlpine, 2018">{{cite news |last1=McAlpine |first1=Fraser |title=The unexpected origins of music's most well-used terms – BBC Music |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/dc64e24d-c4e7-4e34-b2f7-e34a00ea16ad |access-date=28 May 2019 |work=www.bbc.co.uk |publisher=BBC |date=12 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126010742/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/dc64e24d-c4e7-4e34-b2f7-e34a00ea16ad |archive-date=26 January 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>