Word: koontra
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...Subscriber Wilson praise and thanks for an able report.-Ed. Koontra Sirs...
...your excellent paper of Oct. 21! noted a letter from George L. Moore explaining about the word lagniappe (lanny-yap). I wish to men-.tion that our "oldtime" Negroes (and many whites also) used a word which meant exactly the same thing; the word was Koontra, and is supposed to be of African origin. No matter how small a purchase they made, they never failed to ask for Koontra...
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