<font style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt">My grandfather (Cowlitz Indian). Always called his Coppenhagen "snoose"<br><br>Troy E Bouchard<br>
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<br><br><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, Sans-Serif"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"><strong>From</strong>: hzenk@PDX.EDU<br><strong>Sent</strong>: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:53 PM<br><strong>To</strong>: CHINOOK@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><strong>Subject</strong>: Re: Snus</font><br><br>I don't really know anything about it, except that I remember being <br>told or hearing that the term "snoose" is of Scandinavian origin.<br><br>Quoting Anthony Grant <granta@edgehill.ac.uk>:<br><br>> Anything to do with German Schnupftabak 'snuff', or British English <br>> prison slang 'snout' (tobacco, latterly also certain drugs)?<br>><br>>>>> Dave Robertson <ddr11@uvic.ca> 28/06/2009 20:14 >>><br>> One of the words for "tobacco" that we've discussed here in the past 11 (!!)<br>> years is "snoose". So I was amused in an I-just-received-a-secret-message<br>> way, when I saw advertisements at the 7-11 store for Camel's latest product<br>> "Snus". Smokeless, spitless tobacco.<br>><br>> No relation to the CJ word k'aynuL. :)<br>><br>> --Dave<br><br></ddr11@uvic.ca></granta@edgehill.ac.uk></font>
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