Re: CHAT: SV: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 23, 2001, 20:20 |
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> Scandinavians generally were "squareheads" or "scandihoovians".
> "Squarehead" was also applied to the Germans and the Dutch;
> the correct gloss may be "derog. of speaker of Germanic language (other
> than English (or Yiddish))".
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Interesting. In the Canadian-Hungarian community, we have the following
distinctions of ethnicity: Chinese, Japanese, Punjab, Arab (these cover
all Asian and Middle Easterners); Black; Hungarian; and Canadian (this is
any white, non-Hungarian Canadian who is more than 2nd generation). And
"Canadians", we call "kockafeju::" (double acute on the u), meaning,
"squareheaded"...
-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy
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