| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 15, 2000, 3:27 |
In a message dated 2000/06/15 03:12:18 AM, Romilly wrote:>Don't recall anything that might have been Korean; nor do I >recall many Vietnamese words creeping into Engl. Perhaps later, when there >were more of us over there. Probably mostly unprintable. How about "hooch" >'native hut'?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. zHANg