XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an dara lá de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Steve Hayes:   
      
    > On Sun, 01 Sep 2024 15:39:20 -0400, Tony Cooper wrote:   
    >   
    > >>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.   
    >   
    > 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.   
      
   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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