Pain Court = Pin(s) Court(s) (fwd)

[Michael Mccafferty]

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Date: Fri,  2 Apr 2004 06:17:31 -0500
From: mmccaffe at indiana.edu
To: sioan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Pain Court = Pin(s) Court(s)

Picard seems to agree with my earlier suggestion to the Siouanist discussion
group that the place name is a miswritten Pin(s) Court(s) (the singular and
the plural forms are pronounced the same).

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    Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:04:11 -0500
    From: MARC PICARD <picard at VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA>
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Well, I think we can quickly eliminate the possibility that shortbread
was involved in the process :-) I think this is simply a typo or
spelling mistake for Pin Court. For example, there's a municipality
near Montreal by the name of Pincourt which, according to Rayburn's
Dictionary of Canadian Place Names, takes its name from 'the short
pines (pins courts) in nearby woods'.

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