Rapanui word for the day: TINGO

Let's not borrow from culture that tangos with tingo
By MICHAEL JANAIRO, Staff writer

Albany Times Union

First published: Sunday, April 30, 2006

Whether tingo gains currency in English isn't the point of the book; rather, it allows us to wonder what's happening on Easter Island that they would need such a word.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=476302&category=ARTS&newsdate=4/30/2006

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The above article reviews Adam Jacot de Boinard's book "The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World" (Penguin Press; $19.95; 209 pages).