Word: huguenots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They were the lucky ones. When the government discovered that France was losing some of its most useful citizens, Huguenot emigration was promptly banned. Anyone caught reading the Bible, preaching or worshiping according to Protestant tenets was tortured on the rack, and hanged, or sent to the galleys. Hundreds of Protestant villages were burned to the ground. Peasants were rounded up by soldiers with small crosses on their muskets and forced to sign affidavits that they had become Roman Catholic...
...pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses. Confronted with Charlestonese, philologists tremble...