Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

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

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 17:27
Roger Mills wrote:


> Czechs and Slovaks were probably our largest immigrant stock, after Swedes > and Norwegians, for whom I recall no derogatory terms.
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))". -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@...> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein

Reply

Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>