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[RC] Ponies - Diane Trefethen



katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Maybe it harks back to
the days when the english made mockery of Americans with the song Yankee
Doodle and Americans have been over-sensitive about the word
since...although it didn't keep them from naming the (now) world famous
overland mounted mail service the Pony Express.
Kat... have you seen daguerreotypes of cowboys and their mounts? The phrase "cow pony" was not pejorative... they WERE ponies, and they made the West!


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