Re: [CR]Mojo

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Mojo
From: "Morgan Fletcher" <morgan@hahaha.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 09:02:05 -0800
In-Reply-To: <a1.35f0f518.2bac9884@aol.com>
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StuartMX4@aol.com writes:
> Please forgive an ignorant limey pushing in to this interminable
> correspondence, but didn't 'mojo' originally mean heroin?

http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorm.htm#Mojo

Mojo

Mojo is from Black English, first recorded in the mid-1920s. It is common throughout the South. The earliest recorded usages are in reference to the blues and jazz music. The meaning has always been magic, charm, or amulet or more broadly the power and influence derived from such a supernatural source.

It is probably African in origin. Gullah (the dialect of the South Carolina Atlantic islands) has the word moco meaning witchcraft or magic. And the Fulani language of Africa has the word moco'o meaning a shaman.

I am also tired of this mojo thread.

Still looking for early 1960s French parts for my '63 Peugeot PX-10E. Need 49D cranks, simplex front derailleur and shifters, wheels, etc.

Morgan Fletcher
Oakland, CA