Wood chucks = 72 languages

true or false

answer:

no

explanation:

the woodchuck is one of several north american animals whose name has native american origins. unfortunately, those exact origins are unknown. early colonists in new england reported that "wuchak" was the name for the animal in a local algonquian language, but this word was never recorded in a dictionary and the algonquian languages of that region are no longer natively spoken, so the original form of the word has been lost to time. it may have actually been the word for a fisher (a member of the weasel family) instead, since the word for fisher sounds similar to wuchak in living algonquian languages (such as the cree word ocek, pronounced similar to oo-check.) or it might have been an english corruption of a longer word like the narragansett word ockqutchaun, which did refer to a woodchuck. in any case, english-speaking americans later adapted the name "wuchak" into the modern form "woodchuck," which was easier for them to remember.

i remember a kid from africa moved to our school and she didn't speak no english. well she did but it was very limited but all the kids including me would ask her question like has she ever hunted a elephant or ever been hunted by a lion. to us she was so interesting even thought she was ordinary but by the fact she was from a different country we thought things were different. (honestly i asked her if she lived in a mud house on the savanna.) do i feel bad about approaching her yeah but do i feel bad about asking her question no because i would have never found out all the cool things about africa that aren't true