eny, meny, miny, mo

[James Smith]

--- Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:
> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> writes:
>
> >>>>>
>
> At 9:18 PM -0400 7/6/00, Dfcoye at AOL.COM wrote:
> >Some adult in my family told us kids (in the 50s)
> about the older version
> >with 'nigger' but instructed us never to say it.
> The replacement we were
> >taught  (and I don't know how widespread it was),
> was of all things,
> Indian!
> > And we lived two miles from the Onondaga
> Reservation and went to school
> with
> >them.
>
> Probably employing the already extant process
> reflected earlier in the
> 'euphemizing' of the "ten little niggers" doggerel
> to "ten little Indians".
> What a rich cultural heritage we enjoy!
> <<<<<
>
> Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot (IIRC) novel that
> originally was published
> as "Ten Little Niggers" later metamorphosed to "Ten
> Little Indians", and
> finally (or perhaps only in the US) to "And Then
> There Were None".
>
>
>    Mark A. Mandel : Senior Linguist and Manager of
> Acoustic Data

Were the "Ten Little Indians" of A. Christie's novel
American Indians or 'Indian' Indians, and were the
'niggers' of African or Asian ancestry?

=====
James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
SLC, UT                        |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.

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