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

Well, I'm not really sure about its currency.  All I can tell you for sure
is that I've heard it all my life within my family.  They hail mostly form
east Texas.  I can't say for sure whether it's used far and wide or if it's
a local aberation.

Adam


>From: Roger Mills <romilly@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: SV: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions
>Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:57:19 -0500
>
>Adam Walker wrote:
>
> >And "bohunk" becomes all the more insulting when it also happens to be a
> >local slang term for the posterior as in "Sit your bohunk down and be
> >quiet!"  >
>
>
>That's one I've NEVER heard.  Is it at all current, anywhere?
>
>John Cowan wrote
> >>"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.
>
>
>I heard that in South Dakota as a youth, e.g. from my father's mouth.
>Czechs and Slovaks were probably our largest immigrant stock, after Swedes
>and Norwegians, for whom I recall no derogatory terms.  (Lawrence Welk,
>when
>his rinky-tink polka band was broadcasting out of Yankton SD, was a bohunk,
>but not after he became famous.  So it goes.....)
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