Dear Rod,

Yes, I am posting this to you, but C.K. did not, according to his quotes. 'T'aint his fault that you get notified of being clicked on... I for one still advocate clicking on whatever the last post is, most of the time. Also--I liked your term Battling Boy! Gee, now we have GRITS, a Britboy, and a Battling Boy. What next?

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From Encarta (note the origin):
Creek (plural Creek, Creeks) noun

1. PEOPLES member of Native N American people: a member of a Native North American people who originally occupied lands in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, and whose members now live mainly in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were one of the Five Civilized Nations who, under the Removal Act of 1830, were sent to live on reservations in Oklahoma.

2. LANGUAGE Creek language: the Muskogean language of the Creek people. Creek is spoken by about 50,000 people.


[Early 18th century. From creek; from the large number of creeks in their country.]