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Thread #91164   Message #1732402
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
02-May-06 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Origins of the word 'squaw'
Subject: RE: BS: Origins of the word 'squaw'
Well, we all know what "tup" means, and we sympathize.
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Daylia, I first heard of the oldsquaw duck in an article in a birding magazine which described them bouncing of the waves of Lake Michigan on a freezing winter day. It amazed me that something so beautiful could be floating unseen, so close to where thousands of people live.

So perhaps they are not strictly saltwater ducks any more.