Re: Word of the day: ?Papoose?

Den 03-09-2024 kl. 23:33 skrev lar3ryca:

On 2024-09-03 09:53, Steve Hayes wrote:

On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:31:50 +0100, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Ar an dara lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Steve Hayes:
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On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:39:20 -0400, Tony Cooper wrote:
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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?

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Please...write "some people".
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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.
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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".
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You seem to want "people" in the US to all view things the same.

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The OP said (I think quoting a dictionary or some such source) that in AmE
"papoose" meant a child, but everyone from outside the US whose comments
I have seen seems to think it means a child holder.

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The OP described that the word was new to him, explained that he had come
across it in a context where it described a child holder, and pasted the
definition from Wikipedia, which prioritises the “child” meaning. The OP has no
strong feelings on whether it means a child or a child holder, but comments
that the child holder meaning is more useful in that this type of
tightly-binding back-boarded structure has no other common word to describe it.

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Yes, 'twas the Wikipedia reference that gave me the impression that
the "child" usage was common in the USA,

 And Canada, methinks.

And Denmark. I - like another poster - learned brave/squaw/papoose
at an early age. Never had any occasion to use it, though.
/Anders, Denmark