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Questions about English used in the United States and Canada, but usually not Mexico.

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Why is it called an “Indian file”?

I was born and raised in the UK and have long known this term, though most likely through my fairly wide lifelong reading. As already noted, the term has the same meaning as "single file". In fact, it …
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