How do you pronounce Kanuck?   (as in Walt Whitman's "Kanuck Woods")

Dear rosyb-ga;

Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question.
Whitman?s use of the term ?Kanuck? is a variation of the French
Canadian word ?Canuck?; a slang word used (sometimes offensively) to
describe Canadians, especially a French Canadians. It has been traced
through U.S. dictionaries as Canuck, Canack, Cunnuck and Kanuck, the
last one (1835) meaning a Dutch or French Canadian.

CANUCK
http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/canuck.htm

You will find a phonetic spelling of the word as well as an audio
pronunciation sample on this site:

DICTIONARY.COM
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Canuck


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