[Lexicog] "Christian"

[William J Poser]

In Northern British Columbia Indian English, "Christian" means
specifically "evangelical protestant". People are aware at some
level that Roman Catholics and "mainline" protestants such as
the United Church are also Christian in a broader sense, but
they don't use the term that way.

There's another curious usage in Carrier. The Carrier word for
Indians of the South Asian variety is /hindu/, borrowed from
English. Ironically, the great majority of Asian Indians in the
area are Sikhs, who would probably not be pleased if they knew
that they were referred to as Hindu.

--
Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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