In a message dated 2000/06/15 05:14:19 AM, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/14/00 11:28:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Zhang2323@AOL.COM writes:
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>> What about _gook_? that has some currency in certain circles *bittersweet
>> snafle* Someone - an Asian - once told me it originally came from a
>> mispronounced Vietnamese hill tribe word.
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Joe Mondello writes:
>I was under the impression that it came from the korean word (?) for
>'nation', gook. e.g. han gook = korea (or is it korean person?)
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oh that's it. my bad...
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