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Oh, its like me (irish) calling my neighbors "bloody brits"--I don't mind doing that at all, but civilized englishmen might mind..
shades of Dr Johnson's definition of Oats..
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So is there a generic term that covers Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut peoples?
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Of course, but how we do complicate things. Strange world.
I always think Eskimo a much snugger,nicer word than Inuït.
Associates with snow and iglo, while Inuit reads to me like innuwit in - no - wit.
I wouldn't call a T-bonesteak/rare cooked meat either. The Japanese eat raw fish as do the Dutch and Swedes with their herrings and gravadlachs. The Greeks eat sea urchins raw and raw slightly roasted octopus; raw oysters are eaten by the whole chique world. Yes, it all comes down to local touchiness.
I feel like a real cannibal when I eat the fashionable beautiful
Nasturtium flower.
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shades of Dr Johnson's definition of Oats..
OATS, (otes) n. -. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses; but in Scotland supports the people. - joe (def'ns 'Я us) friday
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Ah! didn't it continue like this:
"That's why the English have such fine horses while the Scots are such fine people?"
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So is there a generic term that covers Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut peoples?Not that I know of. You might ask the Inuit Circumpolar Council ( link), but they might be predisposed to using Inuit as the generic term.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Ah! didn't it continue like this:
"That's why the English have such fine horses while the Scots are such fine people?" but not in the dictionary!
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I also try not to make fun of their accent, word choice, syntax, etc. Yup me too, but I make exceptions for Kiwis, Poms and Hillbillies like Jackie. Especially Kiwis! 
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I also try not to make fun of their accent, word choice, syntax, etc. Yup me too, but I make exceptions for Kiwis, Poms and Hillbillies like Jackie. Especially Kiwis! You can be grateful you're alive now as the Kiwi and Ocker accents are moving apart. Some scholars have said that comparisons of recordings show that the two were nearly identical up until somewhere around WWII, but that the rate of divergence is accelerating. So if you'd lived back then you would have been making fun of your own accent. Although from what I understand of it, Tasmanians get more flak for their VERY close family ties than for their distinctive accent.
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I think the Kiwi eckcent before WW2 was possibly more English than ours.
I do make fun of ours too.
I'm a naturalized Tasmanian, so have the normal number of fingers. I have had the operation to graft the second head though...
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