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> a natural complement to inscrutable words like Yazoo, gumbo and bayou. Gumbo and jambalaya are hardly inscrutable, these dishes came straight out of West Afr
by cjohnson318 3y ago
> a natural complement to inscrutable words like Yazoo, gumbo and bayou.
Gumbo and jambalaya are hardly inscrutable, these dishes came straight out of West Africa. Bayou and Yazoo, like Ouachita, Natchez, Natchitoches, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee etc. are all from First Nations.
- adregan 3y agoI believe this is referring to the sound of these words out of the mouth of a southerner. For example, have a southerner attempt to talk about kudzu to a group in Japan and they’ll have no idea what he is saying (I know this from first hand experience). Same with these other words—the vowels change and slide and are inscrutable (hard to understand) to those whom the words are native.