Susan,

You wrote that "Jordan" in that sense would have been pronounced "Jerdon."

Says who?

And since when?

If this pronunciation WAS true for SOME enslaved African Americans quite some time ago [and maybe it was], I know for sure that we never pronounced 'Jordan' 'Jerdon' in the African American Baptist chruch that I attended when I was a child and a teenager. Nor have I EVER heard it pronounced that way in any Black churches or Black community that I have been in.

Then and now where I come from and live, Jordan was {and is} pronounced 'JOR-done' {as in "Michael Jordan"}..

Just thought you might want another opinion...


Azizi