• Aa!@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      “How now” is a phrase that goes back to Shakespeare at least. The full phrase is nothing more than a silly rhyme, which was sometimes used as a vowel sound exercise in English education.

      It most certainly had nothing to do with mocking indigenous American speech patterns, and it does no one any favors to make connections like that where there are none.

    • tygerprints@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      It is? I had no idea, I’d never heard of that before but it now I can see what you mean. I hope I haven’t been offending people by saying it!!