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- From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
- Subject: Re: Maya's poem
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:06:25 GMT
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- Karen writes:
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- K>I finally looked this up: it's Innuit, double-n. My American Heritage
- K>gives Innuits as a possible plural, but this has always sounded silly to me
- K>because Innuit IS a plural, of Innuk. The American Heritage dictionary
- K>says that Innuit means 'people' in the Eskimo lg. Oh yeah!
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- So they are the Innuit, are they? Well, you learn something new
- every day. As far as I can tell, I was wrong about there being a single
- group called Eskimo, though the language family is called Eskimo-Aleut.
-
- Tom Lee
- who will someday know more about this, but not yet, apparently
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