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06-30-2009, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Walter Greenspan
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I agree, 'Guinea' can be offensive when applied to someone of Italian ancestry; but, in this case, 'guinea' referred to a bird, not an ethnic group, and 'Guinea Wood' was the name of that road going back to Colonial times.
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I always wondered if it were for the bird (which is not indigenous to LI) or if it was for a colonial era transaction paid for in guineas. |
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