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From: "Anders D. Nygaard" <news2012adn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 21:15:15 +0200
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Den 03-09-2024 kl. 23:33 skrev lar3ryca:
> 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 Denmark. I - like another poster - learned brave/squaw/papoose
at an early age. Never had any occasion to use it, though.

/Anders, Denmark