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Originally Posted by HarryT
What on Earth, though, is the reason for changing "injun" to "indian"? Is "injun" considered to be insulting? It would never have occurred to me that it was!
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That seemed odd to me as well. I don't think "injun" is meant as a separate slur apart from Indian, at least in Twain's time. I think it's just a dialectical pronunciation.