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Show Curiosa Americana By Elmo Scott Watson "Joy to the World" WHEN Christmas time comes and you join in singing Christmas Christ-mas carols, one of them, no doubt, will be "Joy to the World, the Lord, Has Come." While you're singing It in church or at borne, away up In Alaska some other people who live under the American flag will also be singing It. And these are the words they i will use in the first verse: Atutelukbuk pintok attutanlk cove- : anum numkron, i Ongaslkuk krinkonigrunga esusun, Ongerum dickeiighlcgi diomchau- tunga , Iporee lporee kongubuk eluktcot ; : Ongerum dlckelightcgi diomchau- j tunga . ) lporee tporee eluktoot. j; For they are Eskimos and a na-'.' tire teacher at L'nakaleet, Alaska, ; baa translated "Joy to the World" I into the Eskimo tongue for her peo- j pie to sing at the community Christ- j mas service held there. The word? In the other three verses are said i to be spelled a little differently but j they sound just about the same, al j sunn by the Eskimos. j |