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

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote:

> 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.
Hey, choice! Now that's something to be proud of! I knew we had our hand
in absolutely everything under the sun!

> "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.
Grrrm...lumping us together with a bunch of Svejks.... =((

lol

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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