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To: HighWheeler

Nonsense. “Ginger” has been a nickname for red-headed humans and chestnut (sorrel) horses for ever. It ties in with the spiciness of ginger root and the similar temper of redheads.
The OED gives the earliest documented use in this sense as 1785.


13 posted on 09/17/2011 5:14:29 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother
It ties in with the spiciness of ginger root and the similar temper of redheads.

Sigh, what has this forum come to now with stereotyping redheads.

As if all redheads have bad tempers (we do not.)

23 posted on 09/17/2011 5:34:08 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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