XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 02/09/24 22:33, Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Not me. I knew that "papoose" meant a child, but until this thread I had   
   never heard of it meaning a child carrier.   
      
   --   
   Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org   
   Newcastle, NSW   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)