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OP In my old (14th edition, 1940) Encyclopaedia Britannica, there are two paragraphs under the heading Apache. The first describes the North American Indians of that name. The second I quote in its entirety: "In Paris, the name Apache is given to a class of criminals to describe whom in America the name thug was borrowed from India."
Does that strike anyone else as funny as it does me?
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