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Dinesh ^club

. . . Thomas Hariot, a servant of Sir Walter Releigh, wrote an account of the Virginia settlement in1588, in which he routinely uses local names:

‘Pagatowr,’ a kind of grain so called by the inhabitants, the same in the West Indies is called Maize. English men call it Guinea wheat or Trukey wheat, according to the names of the countries from whence the like hath been brought.

These were the first Americanisms. Not all the new Indian words because a permanent part of English, of course, but several dozen of them did, such as ‘wigwam’, ‘moccasin’, ‘squaw’, and ‘raccoon’. And the Web is able to show us that there are more such words in circulation today than we think. Do a search for ‘pagatowr’ and see. . . . Page 60

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