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A cranberry is a canneberge in France; in Acadia it is a pomme de pré literally a saltmarsh apple; in Quebec it is the Indian atoca.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Examples are its creative borrowings from Indian languages for place names such as Canada and Quebec, and for flora and fauna: achigan for black bass, atoca for cranberry canneberge in France, ouananiche for a freshwater salmon, ouaouaron for a bull frog, orignal for moose, and caribou for a genus of large deer.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A cranberry is a canneberge in France; in Acadia it is a pomme de pré literally a saltmarsh apple; in Quebec it is the Indian atoca.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Examples are its creative borrowings from Indian languages for place names such as Canada and Quebec, and for flora and fauna: achigan for black bass, atoca for cranberry canneberge in France, ouananiche for a freshwater salmon, ouaouaron for a bull frog, orignal for moose, and caribou for a genus of large deer.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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