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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2012-04-11 03:36 pm
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SSC: Dogrib

All this time, I've been thinking this name was a corruption of the native name of the Tłı̨chǫ language and pronouncing it /'dow.grib/. It never once occurred to me that the proper segmentation is "Dog-rib", much less that this was a literal translation of the native name.