Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?

On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:36:10 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:17:55 +0100, Janet <nobody@home.com> wrote:
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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.?
 
Given I am 43 and fairly well-read I can assert that it has basically no
currency outside the US.

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  The native-American "papoose" back-board child carrier
was known to me in early childhood (and probably every
other kid enthralled by "Cowboys and Indians".
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   When we had children I rediscovered it all over again
thanks to Mothercare. We had a baby back carrier called a
papoose.

>
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.