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

Frank George Valoczy scripsit:

> And I have been long curious about what Hungarians are called. I know in
> Romanian they call us "bozgor".
The traditional insult for Hungarians was "hunky", which is generally thought to
be the source of the current African American slur "honky" for all whites.
"Bohunk" has also been used; presumably the first syllable is from "Bohemian",
as Bohemians and Hungarians are obviously interchangeable (:-)).
I don't know for sure, but I suspect that both of these are obsolescent.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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