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Subject: Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 15:33:28 -0600
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On 2024-09-03 09:53, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:31:50 +0100, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Ar an dara lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Steve Hayes:
>>
>>> On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:39:20 -0400, Tony Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>>>> So it seems that people within the US understand "papoose" as referring
>>>>> to a child, and outside the US it refers to a child holder?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please...write "some people".
>>>>
>>>> If I see an (American) Indian with a baby in a carrier strapped to her
>>>> back, I would describe that as a woman with a papoose.
>>>>
>>>> However, if she removes the baby from the carrier and puts the baby on a
>>>> blanket on the ground, I would not say the baby is a "papoose".
>>>>
>>>> You seem to want "people" in the US to all view things the same.
>>>
>>> The OP said (I think quoting a dictionary or some such source) that in AmE
>>> "papoose" meant a child, but everyone from outside the US whose comments
>>> I have seen seems to think it means a child holder.
>>
>> The OP described that the word was new to him, explained that he had come
>> across it in a context where it described a child holder, and pasted the
>> definition from Wikipedia, which prioritises the “child” meaning. The OP has no
>> strong feelings on whether it means a child or a child holder, but comments
>> that the child holder meaning is more useful in that this type of
>> tightly-binding back-boarded structure has no other common word to describe it.
> 
> Yes, 'twas the Wikipedia reference that gave me the impression that
> the "child" usage was common in the USA,

And Canada, methinks.

> and, as Peter Moylan points
> out, in Australia. Elsewhere it seems to be understood primarily as a
> child holder.



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