Lagniappe

for your Friday

Do you know lagniappe? It’s a French-Louisianan/Cajun word out of New Orleans, its roots originally New World Spanish where la ñapa means “something extra.”

That maps, of course. Spain acquired Louisiana from France at the end of the Seven Years’ War, as a sort of lagniappe in itself, one of those little gifts-with-purchase that gets folded into a w…