Sarpy

[Michael Mccafferty]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Michael Mccafferty wrote:

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> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Koontz John E wrote:
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> > One minor mystery in the Omaha and Ponca texts is that the trader Sarpy is
> > referred to as Bac^c^i'.  Dorsey says that this is Peter G. Sarpy, and he
> > seems to have been a trader for whom Joseph La Flesche worked when he was
> > a young man.  The Sarpy family were prominent traders on the lower
> > Missouri in the early days.  The Houck and Nasatir collections mention
> > Bernal (Beral) Sarpy, Bernardo Sarpy (same as last?), De l'Or Sarpy,
> > Gregoire (Gregorio) Sarpy, Jean Baptiste (Juan Bautista) Sarpy, and Lille
> > Sarpy.
> >
> > It has occured to me that Bac^c^i might be a version of Baptiste.  (Which
> > Dorsey spells Battiste in other French names, e.g., Battiste
> > Deroin/Dorion.)  Jean Baptiste Sarpy was the older brother of Gregoire
> > Sarpy, who I suppose might even be Pierre Gregoire Sarpy.
>
> "Batticy" is the French nickname for "Baptiste". This comes about since
> the p is not pronounced, i.e., "Baptiste" is [batis].

Je m'excuse ded' c,a:

I gave you the colloquial Canadian French pronunciation [batis], which is
what I learned and how I pronounce it.  In "standard" franc,ais, it's
[batist].

Michael