On 25 May 2012 02:09, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Moccasin?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moccasin
> >
> > Totem?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem
>
> Suresh already pointed out that John said "excluding those that have
> been appropriated in to English", but your parse error is rather deeper
> than that - he actually claims to KNOW words in "Cherokee, Sioux,
> Apache, Wampanoag, Hopi, Navaho, Iroquois, etc" - so your examples are
> erroneous.
>
> Udhay
>

Apologies. I read his examples as the ONLY category of words (i.e. proper
nouns) appropriated into English.

Kiran

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