Talk:injun

Pejorative?
Is this pejorative? Or is it created because Indian is thought of as offensive? Thanks 81.68.255.36 13:50, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * If Indian is considered at least disrespectful of Native Americans, then this is certainly pejorative when used by someone for whom this is not the normal pronunciation of Indian:. DCDuring TALK 00:05, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Capital letter
Shouldn’t this be capitalised like Indian? --Lundgren8 (t · c) 19:58, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Etymology
Wehr does its -u- come from in this one? Taken as the one in Cajun? --Backinstadiums (talk) 17:37, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but it could also be unrelated eye dialect, as found in, . — Ungoliant (falai) 01:50, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I would (and will) weaken our etymology to merely "compare Cajun", pending a reference stating Cajun (in particular) specifically influenced this word. -jun just a general way of re-spelling (a dialectal or colloquial pronunciation of) that sequence of sounds (-dian); one also sees e.g. Canajun. - -sche (discuss) 09:05, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * then does -jun deserve an entry as a productive (nonstandard) suffix? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:33, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No more so than -dian. It's a way of respelling those sounds/those letters, not a suffix, like respelling s as sh when jocularly representing Sean Connery's speech (and others'), or as th when representng a lisp. (Arguably, we might should note those two thngs on s, since we have an entry on s, unlike one on -dian...) - -sche (discuss) 16:00, 22 May 2020 (UTC)