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=== English words of Kongo origin === * The [[Southern American English]] word "goober", meaning [[peanut]], comes from Kongo ''nguba''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/61/16/G0191600.html|title=Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more|website=www.bartleby.com|language=en|access-date=2017-07-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080328052814/http://www.bartleby.com/61/16/G0191600.html|archive-date=2008-03-28}}</ref> * The word [[funk]], or funky, in American [[popular music]] has its origin, some say, in the Kongo word ''Lu-fuki''.<ref>Farris Thompson, in his work Flash Of The Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy</ref> * The name of the Cuban dance ''[[mambo (dance)|mambo]]'' comes from a Bantu word meaning "conversation with the gods". In addition, the roller coaster [[Kumba (roller coaster)|Kumba]] at [[Busch Gardens Tampa Bay]] in [[Tampa, Florida]] gets its name from the Kongo word for "roar". * The word [[chimpanzee]]
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