thy thigh etc.

[Rick Mc Callister]

	kinnikkinnik, kinnickkinnick, etc. --a type of smoking mixture, is
from a North American Indian language. I think it's Algonquin. Unless, of
course, there was a homonym in Anglo-(Asian) Indian

[snip]
>Undoubtedly true, but wastage still occurs.  My copy of the Concise Oxford
>of 1911, 3rd edition 1934, contains many Anglo-Indian words which would now
>be very quaint, if understood at all.  It also contains words such as:
>   Bayard
>   hoodman-blind
>   kinnikinic
>   kinkajou
>   kino
>   kintal
>   rahat lakoum
>   raff
>   sleuth-hound
>   ubiety
>   xoanon   etc.
>I have no way of checking if these are in the modern editions, but I don't
>mind guessing that many of them are not.

>Peter

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701