XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   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.”   
   >>   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > 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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