stop the pure bunkgreeku1April 21 2005, 02:32:25 UTC
i dont get emails from the Keep-Racism-Alive Foundation like you do apparently, but "picnic" has NO coorelation even remotely to the etiology you mentioned.
The 1692 edition of Origines de la Langue Françoise de Ménage, which mentions 'piquenique' as being of recent origin, marks the first appearance of the word in print. The word picnic first appeared in English texts in the mid-1700s, and may have entered the English language from this French word or from the German "Picknick".
In the late 1990s an e-mail hoax spread around the internet claiming that the word "picnic" was actually derived from racist term for a lynching. This claim had no basis in fact.
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i'll let you take back that statement when you see your beautiful daughter for the first time in your arms.
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The 1692 edition of Origines de la Langue Françoise de Ménage, which mentions 'piquenique' as being of recent origin, marks the first appearance of the word in print. The word picnic first appeared in English texts in the mid-1700s, and may have entered the English language from this French word or from the German "Picknick".
In the late 1990s an e-mail hoax spread around the internet claiming that the word "picnic" was actually derived from racist term for a lynching. This claim had no basis in fact.
See: Snopes.com urban legends reference page (http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.htm)
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