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The Augusta News-Review - February 23, 1980 -
A.R. Johnson
goes out
undefeated
A roaring crowd recently
watched A.R. Johnson Junior
High School finish what may
be its final basketball season
undefeated. (A.R. Johnson is
scheduled to become a Magnet
Sciiuol in September.)
The boys’ basketball team
compiled a 14-0 record,
making Johnson Regional
Basketball Champions and
County Basketball Champions.
Coach Theodore McNeal has
put together two consecutive
Regional Championships and
two County Championships.
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Meeting planned
There will be a meeting to
discuss plans for a reunion of
the 1970 class of the John M.
Tutt High School, 6 p.m. Feb
23 at the home of Beatrice
J ohnson Barksdale, 420
Wicklow Lane in Jamestown.
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Play
scheduled
The play, “The Lady Who
Cried Wolf,” scheduled to be
performed Feb. 22 through 24
by the Paine College Drama
Club has been canceled.
African words survive in English language
By Shirley Irving Thigpen
NNPA News Service
Early scholars assumed that
African speech, brought to this
country by slaves, had all but
disappeared, but there is
increasing evidence that many
African words have survived in
modern American English.
Scholars such as Lorenzo
Turner, J. L. Dillard, and David
Dalby have presented evidence
that a number of American
expressions have entered
American English from African
sources. Some we use daily
without a second thought. The
word phoney, usually
considered a slang expression
from an Irish word for “ring”
is more likely a Mande word
foni, from the West Africa
Senegambian region of West
Africa meaning “to be false.”
The word “hip” in like
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Lions defeat Jaguars
up record to 25-8
Paine College hit four-of-free
throws in the final nine
seconds to take a stirring 70-69
basketball victory from
Augusta College Monday night
in the August-Richmond
County Civic Center.
The victory avenged a
previous 107-89 loss to the
Jaguars and bosted the Lions
record to 25-8.
The loss was the fourth in a
row for the Jaguars, now
16-10.
The hard-fought contest came
down to the final two mimutes
with the Jaguars holding a
one-point lead (67-66)
following Glenn Glover’s jump
shot.
Paine elected to play for the
final shot and went into its
four comer offense. The clock
wound down to nine seconds
to go when the Jags’ Brian
Scott fouled Jerry Lewis.
Lewis responded to the
pressure by making both free
throws to put the Lions on top
68-67.
Paine brought the ball in and
Scott was fouled by Johnny
Dixon with five seconds left.
Scott missed the front end
of his one-and-one and Paine’s
Angelo Grimes made both his
shots to make it 70-67 in favor
of Paine with two seconds
remaing.
Augusta College’s in-bounds
pass the length of the court
was dunked by Darrell Holder
at the buzzer to leave the Jags
one point shy.
Paine Coach Robert Eskew
said that he felt that Paine
need a good transition game to
balance its disadvantage in
height. “Our strategy was
manner seems to owe its
origins to the Mande word hipi,
“to be aware,” and the
common expression when
shaking hands, give me some
skin is nothing more than
Mande I golo dan m bolo, “put
your skin in my hand.”
These examples are
widespread in America and are
common usage by both blacks
and whites. The African impact
on American speech, however,
appears to be strongest in the
south. In the south, many
plant and food names are
African-derived words. In
Alabama, the words goober
and pinder are used as
alternatives to peanut. They
are derived from Kikongo
nguba and mpinda, terms
which distinguish two varieties
of peanuts.
The African identity is
closer for the words yam and
tough transition play and
tough defense.
“I felt we were lucky to win
tonight. We made some costly
turnovers. But Fd rather be
lucky than good..
We threw our entire
repertoire, offensively and
defensively, at them tonight.
“I was pleased to see T.J.
Conley have the game he had.
His defensive play was
excellent. Jerry Lewis, Herman
Cart and Angelo Grimes also
outstanding.”
Augusta College Coach
Marvin Vanover said that
Augusta college’s lack of
rebounding was the big
difference. “They beat us
down the court a number of
times. We didn’t do the kind of
job we had to do on the
boards. Their defense was
good, but they beat us with the
transition game.
I think it was a poorly
officiated game. This game was
an erratic one by both teams
and that sometimes makes it
more difficult to officiate.”
Augusta College actually
out-rebounded the
Lions(36-26), but the Jaguars
were not able to convert as
many caroms into easy baskets
as Paine did.
The two teams kept each
other within easy sight all
long. Biggest lead of the nine
points (45-36) by the Jaguars
with 16:36 left in the second
half.
Anthony Coles, the littlest
Lion (5’8”), led the scoring for
Paine with 26 points. He was
abetted by Johnny Dixon with
18, and Lewis with 15.
For -Augusta, James
okra, which are the same in
English and in the Yoruba
language spoken in Nigeria.
The delicious thick stew made
from okra called gumbo is the
same dish know in Central
Africa as gombo.
It is interesting to note that
in Mande the word for chief is
masa. Enslaved Africans were
thus presented with an
opportunity to use their native
language when confronting
their white masters. They called
them massa and their owners
thought they couldn’t
pronounce English.
Another common instance
of African usage in the South is
the word tote, meaning “to
carry” which derives from the
Kimbundo word tuta. In
Wolof, the common word for
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Richardson scored 20, Holder
17, Eddy Mens 14 and Brain
Scott 11.
The Augusta College girls
won the opening game, beating
the Lady Lions 56-52.
Beth Mckie calmly hit two
free throws with 19 seconds
remaing to give Augusta
College’s women’s basketball
team the verdict over Paine.
The regular-season ending
gave the Lady Jaguars a 9-13
record as they move into
tournament play later this
week.
Paine’s women now have a
5-15 mark.
It marked the second victory
for the Lady Jags over Paine.
Earlier in the season, Augusta
won by a 67-59 margin.
The Paine women fell
behind the first half, but
scored 13 straight points to
move up to 31-26 and closed
the margin to 34-30 at
intermission.
The Augusta College ladies
went over five minuted
without scoring as the Paine
women moved on top 38-36 at
the start of the second half.
The lead changed hands
again when the Lady Jags took
the lead at 44-40 with 10:33
left. Paine never led after that,
but the Lady Lions kept
threatening the rest of the
game.
The pinpoint outside
shooting of Cecelia McGruder
kept the Lady Lions in
contention.
McGruder lead all scorers
with 20 points.
Mckie topped the Lady
Jaguars with 16 as Raponsa
McNeal added 12.
yes is waw (pronounced
wow)and kay means certainly.
Thus waw kay in English
means o.k.
The religion of Islam has
been practiced by Africans in
many parts of Africa for
centuries. Many of the slaves
brought to America were
Muslims, and spoke Arabic
language. Two words support
the the slaves passed parts of
their language into the English
language. One of the words we
say often, “so long” in parting
with friends, is nothing more
than a mispronounciation of
the Arabic word “salaam.”
which means “peace be with
you” as a parting statement.
Another Arabic word, shatan,
is nothing more than “satan,”
and both words mean, “the
Devil.”