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[Steve K.]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 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.

That doesn't scan right -- did they say to use 'injun' or did you use the
three-syllable Indian? Just think how differently all of your games came
out if you had to use that extra syllable to eliminate who is not it! :)

--- Steve K.