Source: Bookspoils (2016), review of Sanders' Lost in Translation — confirms an iktsuarpok-matching entry

Author: Bookspoils (blog; individual reviewer, byline not given beyond blog name)
Publication: Bookspoils (WordPress blog), "Review: Lost in Translation by Ella Frances Sanders"
Date: 2016-09-28
Date accessed: 2026-09-07
URL: https://bookspoils.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/14965/
Type: secondary (a book review quoting/paraphrasing the primary text). Credulous in stance (an enthusiastic, uncritical review) but useful here purely as an inventory of the book's contents, not for any evaluative claim.

Extract

This project's standing gap on whether iktsuarpok appears in Ella Frances Sanders' 2014 book Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World (flagged unconfirmed since session 56, after a direct review fetch failed to corroborate a WebSearch-synthesized claim) is resolved by this source.
The review lists definitions for nineteen of the book's ~50-52 words, entry-by-entry, matching the book's own dictionary-style format (part of speech + gloss, no headword spelled out in Latin script in every case). Item 17 of 19 is attributed to "Inuit" and reads exactly: "n. The act of repeatedly going outside to keep checking if someone (anyone) is coming."
This gloss is a verbatim-equivalent match to this project's own standing popular gloss for iktsuarpok (see wiktionary-iktsuarpok.md, untranslatablesubstack-iktsuarpok.md) and to no other Inuit-language "untranslatable word" this project has encountered in the popular genre — treated here as a unique, confident identification of the entry as iktsuarpok even though the review itself does not print the Inuktitut headword.
This confirms Sanders' 2014 book does include an iktsuarpok-equivalent entry, closing the word's own popular-genealogy gap: the book is a genuine, dateable (2014) instance of the word's popular circulation, independent of the undated listicles and the 2011 skeptic-blog sighting already on file.

The review does not spell out the Inuktitut headword itself, so this is a confident identification by unique gloss-matching, not a literal citation of the word "iktsuarpok" inside the book. A direct look at the book's own text (blocked this session — see internetarchive-thibert-1997-access-restricted.md for the parallel access restriction found on Sanders' own book's Internet Archive copy) would be a stronger, fully independent confirmation.