<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">In a message dated 4/26/2003 12:50:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, p.pannevisaCHELLO.NL writes:<BR>
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Hmmm.....I think "Don," meant more "Mr." My grandad was a gallego farmer and I remember him being addessed as "Don...." "Amo" was used for "Master," for example, by slaves. The wordage was also used: Señor Don.......<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Here's an anecdote about this "Don" business.... When slavery was abolished in Cuba in the XIX cent. (the next to the last country in the Americas to do so) ,a strong polemic ensued as to whether former slaves should be addressed as "Don." So, a theatre piece (comedy) was written, very popular at the time, with the name: "Con Don o Sin Don." Interesting play on words, which evolved in time...(Excuse me for saying it, dude, but what does that have to do with anything? Hmmmm).<BR>
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Xosé Manuel, Miami</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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