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Re: CHAT: SV: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

From:Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...>
Date:Thursday, March 22, 2001, 22:55
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Frank George Valoczy writes:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote: > > The traditional insult for Hungarians was "hunky" [SNIP]. > > "Bohunk" has also been used; presumably the first syllable >> is from "Bohemian", as Bohemians and Hungarians are >>obviously interchangeable (:-)). > > Grrrm...lumping us together with a bunch of Svejks.... =(( >
Svejk was a good soldier. He only fought Hungarians by accident. **Tommie

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