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Originally Posted by silasgreenback
"Injun" would be about like saying "Paki".
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I think that is the case in current usage. Was it also the case in Twain's time or is it simply a dialectical spelling representing how the word was actually pronounced? I mean, I dislike the word "Mohammadan," but I don't expect people to retroactively edit works from the 19th and early 20th century to satisfy me. It was just the common usage of the time, coined on an analogy with the word "Christian" and similar to the word "Buddhist."
Luqman