shawoman

[Jonathan Lighter]

About 4,000 hits.

Luckily, none of them seem to have the relevant meaning.

On the other hand, I find about 150 "shapeople."

But they all seem to be jokes.

Whew.

JL

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM, George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>wrote:

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> how about shaperson?
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> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009 5:30 pm
> Subject: shawoman
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> > You could have guessed, right?
> >
> > 2003 Serge C. Lee and Francis K. O. Yuen, in F. K. O. Yuen _International
> > Perspectives on Disability Services_ (Routledge, 2004) 129: In regard
> > to
> > Hmong shamanism, 51.3% (n=39) said they still somewhat respect [a] Hmong
> > shaman/shawoman.
> >
> > About 10,000 RGs for "shawoman," as one might expect.
> >
> > As one might not expect, fewer than 5 for "shawomanism."
> >
> > JL
> >
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