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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
In both the Cajun and Creole areas (the difference being more ethnic than anything else -- Cajuns are ethnically White, while Creoles are a mixture of White, Black and American Indian -- mostly Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole) there are lots of words that are mangled French/English/and who knows what...
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Quebec and Texas are cousins from a looong time ago. Galveston was built on land bought in 1836 by a French Canadian named Michel B. Menard. He's a distant relative on my mother's family tree. See, the French Canadian explorers loved Texas and stayed there to become the root of many a family tree. When I look at a phonebook or some name list from Texas, I'm amazed at the number of francophone names. It would also be natural that some words take up root too.