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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:21:46 EST
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- From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Maya's poem
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- Posted on 22 Jan 1993 at 13:40:34 by ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
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- >>Inuits, Tlingits, etc., and they don't like being called Eskimos, because
- >
- >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!
-
- The accepted spelling in Canada is Inuit. That 'Eskimo language' is
- presumably Inuktitut.
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- The common story about the word Eskimo is that it is from a southern
- Indian language (no, not Telegu - perhaps Algonquin :-) ) meaning
- 'eaters of raw meat'. This may, of course, be folk etymology.
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- Tony H.
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