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
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--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
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> 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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