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
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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
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