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Is your title saying the site is full of s**t? 
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nah, I just figgered to get all y'all digging... ;)
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lagniappe - Quechua yapay 'add, addition'
This is a very handy word I recognized from your source, Maverick. Never knew where it came from before.* "high muckamuck" [Chinook hiu muckamuck] is another great one!
from Dr. Bill [wwh]:
Maverick's long list of Indian words is tantalizing in that I once knew many of them. For instance, I knew axolotl was an amphibian that we dissected in Comparative Anatomy. Think it was called 'mudpuppy'. I'll bet few members know where those native American groups [in Maverick's source] were located.
* M-W traces the source to french/spanish but perhaps "la napa" derives from "Quechua yapay", a custom practised by aboriginal peoples in regions of the Americas conquered by the Spanish.
Main Entry: [bla·gniappe
Pronunciation: 'lan-"yap, lan-'
Function: noun
Etymology: American French, from American Spanish la ñapa the lagniappe
: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure
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For most of them I at least have a guess:
Costanoan--Costa Rica?
Nahuatl--Mexico?
Guarani--South America?
Quechua--Mexico or Central America?
Eskimo--yep
Carib--too easy, unless I have been deceived
Choctaw--um...midwest U.S.?
Arawak--no idea unless it's Alaska
Tupi--no idea
Algonquian--northeast U.S. and into Canada, although this actually came to be the
"umbrella name" under which several tribes united
Taino--no idea
Quechua--no idea but puts me in mind of Quebec
Aztec--Mexico
Aymara--no idea
Catawba--no idea
Maya--South America--Peru?
Salish--no idea
Araucanian--no idea
Miskito--no idea (I'm beginning to think I'm going to have
to retract my opening statement.)
Ojibwa--midwest/western U.S. ...I think
Chinook--way northern North America...west
Navajo--Mew Mexico area
Dakota--too easy
Hopi--next to the Navajos
Natick--no idea
Powhatan--augh, I should know this! Eastern U.S. ...?
Aleut--way northern North America
Cree--midwest U.S.
Nootka--no idea but sounds way northern
Narraganset--too easy
Pima--SW U.S.
Halkomelem--no idea
Munsee--never heard of this one or the one above
Massachuset--too easy
Muskogean--sort of northern-eastern midwest U.S.
Galibi--never heard of them, either
Micmac--Michigan?
Shawnee--northwestern midwest--came to be pretty fierce
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At least was interesting (as opposed to the above):Could uh-uh and uh-unh come from Cherokee? They're Americanisms, and the former at least recalls the Cherokee negative, a nasalized high vowel. On the other hand, some have claimed an African origin for these expressions. And on the third hand-- you need a lot of hands in philology-- nasals with negatives and central vowels are suspiciously common across the world (like "mama" or "papa"), and are thus hard to attribute to borrowing.
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another wide page, plutarch, this time from the M-W paste. did you use the preformatted markup, or did this font change come along with the cut-n-paste?
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Quechua--Mexico or Central America?
Quechua--no idea but puts me in mind of Quebec
Jackie, the Hogwash® thread is up there ^ in W&F [duck]
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did this font change come along with the cut-n-paste?
It came along with the cut-n-paste. Now there is no link at all.
Didn't know there is a "preformatted markup" [whatever that is]. I have tried Maverick's suggestion of splitting the url on another line, but that seems to break the link most of the time.
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>Didn't know there is a "preformatted markup" that's using the "pre" markup so that you can do stuff like this.
for
some
reason
it
changes fonts well
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as the better solution to the long-link problem seems to be to
use snipurl.com or tinyurl.com. they're really very easy to use.
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4 -just 4 pages of paper.. 2 if you double side them, and not much to read if you are too cheap to spare 4 sheet of paper..
READ the FAQ and learn how things work--print them and reas as you are waiting for pages to load..
there is a link right on top of page --just over from check private.
PRE is not a secret. not everyone has a 48 inch monitor. wide pages are real pain in the ass.
you can go back and ADD Carriage returns (ie, hit enter) on long lines, and break the text up into managable lengths.
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Arawak--no idea unless it's Alaska
nope! another one of the tribes of the caribian... (not sure exactly which islands had caribs, and which had arawaks.. they didn't get along..
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AnnaS., I have 653 new posts in W & F; dunno when I'll get up the nerve to get back there.
Helen, what's an arawak, please?
Edit--just re-read your post; I should have also asked what are caribs?
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function as I'd expect
Well, if you expected it to cause the machine to hang, requiring a reboot, I'd say it was a resounding success.
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Sorry, Fong - I'd tested it but of course only on an industry standard PC ;)
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Carib--too easy, unless I have been deceived
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Arawak--no idea unless it's Alaska
Tupi--no idea
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Catawba--no idea
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Salish--no idea
carib and arawak are tribes of the caribean.. not sure which lived on which islands or if there lands overlapped, but you were right with carib.
tupi- (WAG) is eastern US coast (thinking of 'tupilo'-- several native trees carry tupilo as part of there name.. and making a WAG based on that.
Catawba--an other WAG, north eastern US --anywhere from deleware to canada but i don't know a specific area.
--there are native grapes with this name that are grown in NYS. so maybe the finger lakes area.
salish-- one of the Pacific north west groups. (anywhere from northern california to alaskan panhandle..i don't know specificly where, but somewhere there)
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Tupí is a Brazilian tribe. The Guaraní are located in both Brazil and Paraguay -- in fact, the name of the Paraguayan currency (FWIW [sic]) is guaraní.
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Isn't there a drink called guarana (sp?) there?
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>Is your title saying the site is full of s**t?
I can't help but to have noticed that some folks have difficulty rendering *^$@ (the above
ultimate word), even when triggering recognition in the reader seems to be of enormous gravity.
here then is a bit of quasi-steganography for you: $#!+
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> $#!+
lol! you're a gem, m
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