User talk:ThreeWaters

The term "comerradoes" comes from Jonathan Dickinson's Journal, which was written in 1697. Many of his attempts to phonetically render Spanish and Native American words look strange to our eyes (hence the scare quotes). Unfortunately, the edition I have is 92 pages long, but has no index, so it may take me a while to find the page reference. -- Donald Albury 20:07, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * First use of the term seems to be page 29, on "month 8, day 2" (October 2, as Dickinson was using Old Style dates. -- Donald Albury 13:52, 22 June 2011 (UTC)