SC - Peanuts-possibly OOP

Decker, Terry D. TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon Feb 1 17:33:55 PST 1999


> Is it true that "Gringos" are called that because they sang "grin gro' the
> 
> rushes oh!" all the time?  I was told that when I lived in Texas, although
> I 
> was right "off the boat" and a nice luminous green colour at the time!
> 
> ...just wondered...(creeping away quietly)
> Elysant
> 
That is the tale.  Of course, there is no evidence that the word came into
existence that way.  In fact, there is no solid documentation of how the
word came into being other than several versions of the apocryphal tale.

Bear
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