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Very interesting! Thanks for the info that I didn’t know I had- I will be using it! And finally- when will all this bullshit end?😱 😂

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Has this girl never heard Goldilocks & the three bears? Locks has been in usage in English to mean hair for hundreds of years.

This is where etymology goes wrong - when used by stupid people with no ability to research

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Instead they would use this to argue that Goldilocks was actually a Black girl with dreadlocks.

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See Bob Marley's movie "The Harder They Come." Best hair-washing scene ever. Dreadlocks, ganja, The Lion of Judah...Interesting religion. Rasta. Cool hats, too.

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I’m so old that I remember going to see it on 8th Street in the Village- NYC! And after seeing it, I became obsessed with the music but it’s the great Jimmy Cliff- not Bob Marley!❤️

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Whoops! You're right. Saw it at the Detroit Institute of the Arts about 100 years ago. I like Shaggy, too. And Castelberry and Dupree (MWMF). Still have their CD. Or was it a tape?? Long ago & far away. The washing-your-hair-in-the-sea was beautiful.

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😂❤️

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I still love Castelberry and Dupree!! Still have one tape and one CD of theirs. Great music! Never got to see them live, darn it.

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The Oxford English Dictionary included first use of words in English texts. See "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester for interesting background.

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Etymoline.com is nice, tells you what dict it came from.

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appreciate so much your willingness to firmly disagree in this politically/culturally loaded conversation and assert evidence. doing so in your low key and respectful way.

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Linguists are perfect for explaining.

As a Norwegian I appreciate the fact that vikings had lokkr seperatly from any other culture. Locks have been seen in a lot of different cultures around the world. Maybe it has to do with the fact that all humans have hair. Us being monkeys n all.

Jeezlousise

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I get it. She’s wrong. But I will say that many Black people with locs prefer that you use the term “locs” instead of “dreadlocks” because of the negative connotation that comes with the word dreadful, and because Black hairstyles such as braids and locs are looked down upon as unprofessional when those are usually the most simple, protective styles to wear. Many Black women have experienced lots of heat damage by straightening their kinky course hair, and locs are a way to care for their natural hair without as much manipulation or damage, while also embracing their ethnic identity as beautiful, not dreadful.

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