Re: Word of the day: “Papoose”

On 01/09/24 07:47, lar3ryca wrote:

On 2024-08-31 12:54, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

Cradle boards and other child carriers used by Native Americans are
 known by various names. In Algonquin history, the term papoose is
sometimes used to refer to a child carrier.”
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Given I am 43 and fairly well-read I can assert that it has
basically no currency outside the US. Does it have much currency
within the US?

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I was somewhat befuddled when I first heard someone call the child a
 'papoose', as I had always  heard it in reference to a child
carrier.

I'm the opposite. I knew that the word meant "child", but until today I
had never heard it to mean child carrier.
We had various styles of child carrier, of course, but we must have had
different names for them. (And now I've gone and forgotten all such names.)
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Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW