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Years ago, at the beginning of a sojourn in South Africa, I heard an elderly woman use the word “picannin” to describe an African child. Picannin, I thought, surely that’s Aboriginal, and with a “y” on the end. So I went to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary….



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