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- Posted on 22 Jan 1993 at 10:42:59 by Thomas J Lee
- >Inuits, Tlingits, etc., and they don't like being called Eskimos, because
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- I finally looked this up: it's Innuit, double-n. My American Heritage
- gives Innuits as a possible plural, but this has always sounded silly to
- me because Innuit IS a plural, of Innuk. The American Heritage dictionary
- says that Innuit means 'people' in the Eskimo lg. Oh yeah!
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- Karen
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