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
