[PW] Re: Eskimo vs Inuit

Eoin C. Bairéad ebairead at gmail.com
Thu Nov 30 06:31:51 PST 2006


Apart from those (like us the Irish) who called themselves nuttin, and then
borrowed a word from their nearest neighbours (in our case the Welsh), and
called themselves "the Foreigners"

On 29/11/06, Alan Hope <alan.hope at skynet.be> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:28:16 -0800, Craig Miller wrote:
>
> It's been my experience that native peoples tend to call themselves
> something that means "us folks" while the rest of the world is defined
> as "them folks".
>
> --
> Alan Hope
> http://bcsbrussels.blogspot.com
>
>
>

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Eoin C. Bairéad
Dublin, Ireland
Áth Cliath, Éire


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