Grove Spelling Dictionary
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Heard: shinkwapin

graft: letters 1, 5, 6
Writtenchinquapin

CHINK-uh-pin

Both consonant clusters have been rewritten and both have gone the same way, towards the commonest English value rather than the one this word uses. That is a fair account of how the name sounds to somebody meeting it for the first time and a poor guide to how it is written.

Other spellings of chinquapin

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