>Hi Cousins,
> In all the reading I have done the song Green Grow the Rushes Oh,
>is the genesis for the term Gringo. My Mexican friends also agree to this
>idea. David-----Original Message-----
Dictionaries claim that gringo came from griego,
which means Greek, with a connotation of "stranger".
The version I heard actually had Green Grow the Lilacs.
For both songs and two versions of each, see
http://www.mids.org/sinclair/gringo.html
The eighty Scots mercenaries at the Alamo didn't exist,
but there were several Scots volunteers at the Alamo,
and the number might have grown in the telling.
There's a link to the Alamo web page from the above,
so you can find the list of those who died there.
John
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