Honest engine

Posted by James Briggs on August 08, 2001

In Reply to: Honest engine posted by Chin Ho on August 08, 2001

: Where does it come from...

I'm sure it's 'honest Injun', where 'injun' is a corruption of 'indian' and is meant to imply that a particular 'red indian', as Native Americans were called a couple of 100 years ago, was an honest one, ie 'honest' by white man's standards, which were very different from the long standing native ones and not necessarily of the best!

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