"Allez, allez" was a Norman addition to the English language, pronounced "ollie, ollie" and sometimes written "oyez, oyez" and meaning "everyone." "In kommen frei" was a phrase popular in Dutch/German New York and Pennsylvania, where many Zonians came from, meaning "come in free." ![]() ![]() Its root seems to be an English-Norman French-Dutch/German concoction: "Alles, Alles, in kommen frei"or "Oyez, oyez, in kommen frei!" There are many regional variations, most of them the product of dialectical interference or regional preference. The -ee was added for emphasis and for its piercing quality. It probably started out as "All-ee, all-ee, outs in free," a call from the person who was "it" letting those hidden (the outs) know it was safe to come in. It was used in when playing hide and seek by children. "Lingua oro ut vos volo quispiam ut sanus amo is est gravis." * Sometimes in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, if you shoot an enemy and then hide, they will say "Oly oly oxen free! Come out, come out wherever you are!". * Oly Oly Oxen Free was originally used to tell players in a game of hide and seek that the game was over and they could come out of hiding. * Dana Awbrey alludes to this phrase by titling a blog post "Olly Olly Axon Free". Marines use it on the level "The Ark" when firing on the first Covenant encampment, but only if the IWHBYD Skull is activated. * When the rest of Blue team, minus John-117 arrives on Onyx, Kelly whispers it over the COM, except she whispers "Olly Olly Oxen Free" with two L's * At the end of Operation: FIRST STRIKE, Sergeant Johnson used it to let Blue team know where the Gettysburg was holding station behind a nearby moon. * During Operation: FIRST STRIKE, Linda-058 used it to let John know where she was so he could pick her up. * For the Spartans to enter CASTLE Base, Kelly-087 used it to let Dr. * After the Battle of Reach, Anton-044 used it as an S.O.S. * After the Spartan Team had beaten Tango Company, and John-117 had checked to make sure their evacuation point was all clear. Some of the times it was used are as follows: ![]() The term Oly Oly Oxen Free was used on numerous occasions throughout Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike. Thus, the signal was extremely important to each Spartan they would rather die than give up the significance of the tone, which could potentially be used to betray or endanger their teammates. Catherine Halsey, Cortana, Sergeant Johnson and Chief Petty Officer Mendez. Those outsiders were close to the Spartan's family such as Dr. ![]() Oly Oly Oxen Free was a secret amongst the Spartans none but they and a select few outsiders knew it. The seeker has to try to find the "hiders" without allowing them to sneak in and kick the can. The phrase can also be used to coordinate hidden players in the game "kick the can", where a group of children hide within a given radius and a "seeker" is left to guard a can filled with rocks. The exact origin of the phrase is unknown, but etymologists suspect it is a childish corruption of a phrase that would have made more sense in the Hide-and-seek context such as "all ye, all ye, oxen free!", "all in free", "out’s in free", "all set free", "All ye all ye outs in free", "All ye, all ye, outs are free", or "All the, all the outs in free" or possibly a corruption of the German "Alle, alle auch sind frei", (literally, "Everyone, everyone also is free"). Olly olly oxen free is a phrase used in children's games, which is generally used to indicate that people who are hiding (in a game of hide and seek, for example) can safely come out into the open. Word sleuths are fairly certain that the 'oxen' (or 'octen') in the call is simply a childish corruption of 'all in.' The rest remains a mystery." From "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997). 'If you've ever wondered about the origins of this chant - used to call in all players at the end of a game of hide-and-seek - be advised that the experts only have a partial answer to your lifelong puzzlement.
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