Date:         Mon, 7 Dec 2015 14:13:48 -0500
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And yet, here's Wikipedia:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_from_indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas#Words_from_Eskimo.E2.80.93Aleut_languages

A number of North American aboriginal words picked up a 'ch' or 'k' sound when they got 'adopted' by English - I wonder if this is one of them, since the original sound was a 'sh'.

James
Ottawa, ON

> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 02:26:59 +0000
> From: mwmiller6@ATT.NET
> Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 29 Nov 2015 to 30 Nov 2015 (#2015-456)
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> Checked with a friend who is an Inuit, and her job is as a translator English-Inuit and back.
> No such word.
> None of the Inuit dialects have any words with the ch sound.
> or so she says. Urban legend.
> FWIW 
> 
> 
>     On Monday, November 30, 2015 11:48 PM, don spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET> wrote:
>  
> 
>  "Chimo"is a greeting in inuktituk, the language of the Inuit of northern Canada.  It was also used in an attempt to establish a distinctly Canadian substitute for "Cheers" or "Skoal" as in making a toast with a beverage. It has since been adopted by organizations as diverse as a softball team, the Canadian Army engineers Mascot, and a youth employment agency as well as the dealership mentioned.
> 
> 
> "Charisma is the ability to influence without logic."    Quentin Crisp
> 
> 
> 
> On 2015-11-30, at 10:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> 
> > Date:    Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:55:56 -0800
> > From:    Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Re: [WetWesties] '72 VW Van "Chimo Camper" FS Vancouver BC
> > 
> > Hi Lloyd.
> > Yes. That may be it. But as pointed out by another
> > list member, "chimo" could simple be an expression denoting
> > "cool", "boss" or other dated expression.    ;)
> > 
> > Neil.