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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:


> 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?

At the time of the Louisiana purchase the there were
only a few thousand population in French and Spoanish
speakers in Missouri, that was because there were only
a few thousand people in Missouri.  By statehood that
few thousand was a very small percentage of the
population.  From that point the incoming population
was overwhelmingly English speaking.


> 
> 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.

Are you saying that "if that usage is common in
Tennassee then it must be commen in Missouri" ?