Talk:kinnikinnick

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which get >1 but <3 BGC hits: kinikenick, kinnikinnich (2), kinekinick, kinekinic, kinikennick, killekinic (2), kinnekinneck, kinnekinnek, kinnekineck, kinnekinec, kinekineck, kinekinek, kinnikinnec, kinnikinnek, kinikinnec, kennikennik, kennickenick, kinnakinnik, kinnakinick, kinnickinnich (1), k'neck-k'neck, k'neck k'nick, k'nick-k'nick (1); kinnikineck (4 hits, but 3 are mentions). killickenick may also be marginally attested. Many other spellings, like kilickenick, are attested as placenames and in German. - -sche (discuss) 02:35, 6 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

  • 1890, Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban, Pennsylvania Archives, page 181:
    The vanilla of South America, has been applied by the Spanish manufacturers of tobacco, in various ways; it is strange, that we have never assayed the Killekinic.*
  • 1895, Charles Henri Leonard, The Pocket Materia Medica and Therapeutics [] , page 354:
    Kinnikinnich bark; see Cornus
  • 1906, Empire Review, page 465:
    On either bank were freshly torn limbs of the “choke” cherry tree, cranberry, and “kinnikinnich” willow, the latter bearing a white acrid fruit very attractive to Bruin's palate.
  • 1927, Constance Lindsay Skinner, Roselle of the North, New York : Macmillan:
    When they arrived where he was, they would always find Little Brown Crane sitting on a log or a hummock of grass, smoking his pipe of dried red willow bark, or of K'nick'nick, which is the leaf of a vine and []
  • 1968, John Joseph Henry, An Accurate and Interesting Account of Heroes in the Campaign Against Quebec in 1775, New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation:
    A half part of Red-willow bark, added to as much of the dryed sumach forms the killekinic. Those ingredients added to a third part of leaf tobacco, and the mass rubbed finely together in the palm of the hand, makes that delicious fume, so ...
  • 2005, Lorle Porter, Politics & Peril: Mount Vernon, Ohio in the Nineteenth Century, Equine Graphics Publishing Group (→ISBN), page 21:
    Indians brought furs, and maple syrup; the merchant presented tobacco; they mixed it with kinnickinnich (sumac) bark to smoke.

- -sche (discuss) 05:00, 14 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

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