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[Laurence Horn]

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.
>
>Dale Coye
>The College of NJ

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!

larry