The wonder of words.

One of my favourite ready meals from my local supermarket is Cajun Chicken, and when I buy it, I am always reminded of the fascinating (to me, anyway) derivation of the word "Cajun".  It goes something like this - when settlers were colonising the Americas in the 17th century, many of those from France settled in the north of the territory - what today is Canada - and in particular in an area known as Arcadia.  Somehow this quickly lost the "r" and became Acadia, and not unnaturally, its inhabitants were known as Acadians.  This was a period when England and France were more or less permanently at war, and it was only a matter of time before the English sought to turf the French out of North America, or at the least to subjugate them.  The Acadians refuse to submit to English rule and migrated to other more congenial parts of the continent.  A great many of them ended up in Louisiana, and over the years "Acadian" morphed into "Cajun".  And there you have it.