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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:28:19 -0800
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- From: Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
- Subject: Re: Maya's poem
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- From: ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
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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!
- > Karen
-
- There is, of course, the Edmonton Eskimo football team.I could believe that if
- any of them could read a dictionary that an entry like that would make
- sense to them. They have their own special language.
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