Comments on: Basketball Legends Revealed #1 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/06/08/basketball-legends-revealed-1/ For unbelievable true sports stories and believable false ones! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:34:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shell http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/2009/06/08/basketball-legends-revealed-1/comment-page-1/#comment-3211 Shell Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:23:25 +0000 http://legendsrevealed.com/sports/?p=499#comment-3211 Putting Indian Territory in scare quotes is like putting Arizona or Rhode Island in quotes, meaning it makes no sense. The Territories were valid legal entities before they became States. Some of them kept the name they'd had as a Territory, some were changed when they became States. Indian Territory became Oklahoma, or part of it did, anyway. Just because the word isn't politically correct is no reason to put scare quotes around it. Putting Indian Territory in scare quotes is like putting Arizona or Rhode Island in quotes, meaning it makes no sense. The Territories were valid legal entities before they became States. Some of them kept the name they’d had as a Territory, some were changed when they became States. Indian Territory became Oklahoma, or part of it did, anyway.

Just because the word isn’t politically correct is no reason to put scare quotes around it.

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