Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 21:15:02 CDT

From: "Donald M. Lance" ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU

Subject: Re: Cutler's book



O Brave New Words! Native American Loanwords in Current English

by Charles L. Cutler

University of Oklahoma Press, 1994



Twelve chapters -- plus --

Glossary 1. English Loanwords from North American Indian Languages (North

of Mexico) (63 pp)

Glossary 2. English Loanwords from the Eskimo and Aleut Languages (4 pp)

Appendix. English Loanwords from the Latin American Languages (27 pp)



He also has a graph of frequency of borrowing from 1600 to 1950. Wars and

standoffs seem to have shut off borring completely for a generation or so,

with peaks in borrowing coinciding with historical periods when it served

Euro-American purposes to deal directly with local residents (e.g., right

after "settlement", building the railroad through "Indian lands", etc.)



Good book. DMLance