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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Huh?  There was more French spoken there, even more Spanish than English 
until quite late in the history of the state.

While doing geneology research for folks I've had occasion to communication 
with the folks at the Missouri History Museum.  They even publish their 
stuff in French, Spanish and English.  A lot of the old legal documents I've 
gotten were still being written in French until the early 1800s.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VAN DELL JORDAN" <vdjor AT yahoo.com>


> 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
> people.
> Van Dell
>
>
>
> '
> --- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
> > > Not
> > > sure why, but there is a crossing of Bryant Creek
> > about a mile from
> > > here named Nigger Ford. I have been unable to
> > verify that perhaps it
> > > is so-called because a black family lived there.
> >
> > 'Nigger' is a creole anglicizaton of the Spanish
> > 'negro' or perhaps the
> > French 'niger' which both simply mean 'black'.  In
> > the old parlance of the South,
> > it is not a pejorative word.  A species of pine here
> > is called 'nigger pine"
> > because the wood is streaked in black and what is
> > scientifically classified as a
> > Black Oak is in the vernacular a "nigger oak".
> >
> > Knowing that the word has become offensive since the
> > time of the old South,
> > most people don't use it.  But it is a bias on your
> > part to think that the
> > person who named the crossing 'Nigger Ford' had
> > anything but its color in mind.   </HTML>
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