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Thread #149707 Message #3484408
Posted By: Ron Davies
27-Feb-13 - 02:49 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: why is the US dollar called a 'buck?'
Subject: RE: BS: why is the US dollar called a 'buck?'
"heard and occasionally used..." Exactly. That's why it's absurd to assume racist intent on the part of the speaker.
The Snopes quote is: "As fashionable as it has become lately to ascribe all sorts of racist origins to ordinary words (as if we could eradicate unsavory aspects of our history by simply eliminating a chunk of our vocabulary) ..."
Perfect.