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In a message dated 4/30/2008 7:26:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
vdjor AT yahoo.com writes:


> 
> the spanish and french languages did not have a whole
> lot of influence in Missouri... exept maybe  along the
> mississippi.  It is probable that by the time the
> creek in Gene's area was named the only way the locals
> had heard the word nigger was in relation of black
> 


Whaa??  Missoui was part of the Louisiana purchase in which the French sold 
their holdings to the US, which they had in turn acquired from Spain.... just 
how much more French and Spanish influence do you want?   Fact is, French and 
Spanish were in common usage all along the areas bordering the Mississippi, 
the 
farther south the more the influence.

Van Dell, how much influence do you suppose the French and Spanish had here 
in the remote craigs of hollows of Tennessee, and yet that was the common 
useage here.

James

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