Harry,
Now here's a good post, you do on occasion come up with some
interesting information. Thanks
Paul


Harry Krause wrote:

No, I didn't know that. Noted. Thanks. I would spell it Innuit, though.
Are you sure about this? Because "Eskimo" is a native American word of
Algonquian origins:


("EskIm@U) [a. Da. Eskimo (Sw. Eskimå), ad. F. Esquimaux pl., from some
Algonquian Indian language; cf. Proto-Algonquian *a_k- raw, *-imo eat,
Abnaki askimo (pl. askimoak), Eskimo, eaters of raw flesh.]

and there are references to a language of the same name:

Any of the several languages of this people, of which one set of
dialects or languages, also called Inupik, is spread from Norton Sound,
Alaska, to Greenland, and another set, also called Yupik, is in
southwest Alaska and the eastern tip of Siberia. These languages,
together with those of the Aleut, form the Eskimo-Aleut, -Aleutian family.

But I don't want to offend a fine people in any way. It's not as if they
are neoconvicts.


Rephrase:

Well, she was planning to sell Sterno to the Inuit, but she drank it,
instead.