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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005>Noah J. Jacobs, in his book "Naming Day
in Eden" (The MacMillan Company</SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005>Collier MacMillan Ltd, London 1958)
collected the following stereotypical </SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005>beliefs about
nationalities:</SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>"Foreigners are sometimes called by the names of their favorite
foods:</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>the
Germans refer to the Italians as Macaroni or Spaghetti</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>
and to the Jews as Knoblauch (garlic)</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>the
Rumanians call the Bulgarians "onions and garlic"</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> the
Greeks "blue herrings"</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>(I have
heard anglophones refer to Frenchmen as "frogs" and Germans as
"krauts"</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>and to
Asians as "chop sueys.") </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>"Each
nation associates a host of miscellaneous vulgarities, vices, diseases
and</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>disagreeable traits with foreign countries. The Japanese call
foreigners 'stinking</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>of
foreign hair' (keto kusai); the Czechs call a Hungarian a 'pimple' (uher).
In</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Hungary
and Austria the cockroach is known as a 'Swabian' (swab,
Schwabe),</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>in Poland
as a 'Prussian' (prusak) and in Germany as a 'Frenchman'
(Franzose).</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>The
French retaliate obliquely by calling the scurvy louse a 'Spaniard'
(espagnol).</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>The
Romans, however, with fine partiality named this troublesome insect
after</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>the
Germans and the Poles, 'latta germanica' and 'coccus polonicus.' The
Germans</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>have
taken this pedicular parasite to their bosoms and made it a term of
endearment</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>(Lausbub), killing it, so to speak, with kindness. In Italy a
privy has at times been</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>known as
an 'Englishman' (l'inglese) and in Poland as a 'bismarck', in honor of
the</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Iron
Chancellor. In England an errand to the privy has in former times
been</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>variously
described as 'to go to Egypt', 'to take an Irish shave' or with
the</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>quaint
euphemism 'to give a Chinaman a music lesson.' A malignant
scalp</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>ailment
is commonly known as the Polish disease, the rickets as
the</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>English
disease. Syphilis, originally the name of a shepherd in a Latin
poem</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>published
in 1530, was called the Corinthian disease by the Greeks,
the</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Spanish
gout by the English, the French disease by the Germans and
the</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Florentine or Neapolitan disease by the French. One infected
by this dread</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>affliction was said by the Dutch "to have seen Spain" and by the
French</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>"to have
gone to Sweden or to Bavaria." ...</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>A cheat
or a sharper at cards is a 'Greek' to the English and French,
and</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>a
'loudmouth' to the Arabs; the Dutch attribute excessive boasting to
the</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>French,
the Portuguese to the Spanish, and the English to the
Gascons</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>(gasconade); the Germans say 'proud as a Spaniard' (stolz wie ein
Spanier), </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>the
French 'proud </FONT></SPAN></TT><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff>as a Scot (fier comme un écossais)' and the Rumanians
</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>'stubborn
as a Bulgarian (incapatanat ca un bulgar).' We take
'French</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>leave'
but the French 'English leave' (filer ŕ l'anglaise); when Poles formerly
</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>took
'German leave' (abszd niemiecki) </FONT></SPAN></TT><TT><SPAN
class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>they went bankrupt,
which in French</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>was 'to
go to Belgium' (filer en Belgique). To play a dirty trick is in
French</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>'to play
a Chinese trick' (faire une chinoiserie), in Spanish 'a Basque
trick'</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>(basquerie), in Polish 'to pull a Swabian' (oszwabic). Excessive
drinking</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>in French
is 'to drink like a Pole' (gris comme un polonais) and in
Czech</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>'to drink
like a Dutchman'; to get drunk in Spanish is 'to catch a
Turk'</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>(coger
una turca). In Spanish 'to be surrounded by Englishmen '
means</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>to be
dunned by many creditors, and 'to work for the English' is to
work</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>for
nothing."</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=218370914-22022005>Fritz Goerling</SPAN></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=734481015-22022005>Patrick Hanks
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sometimes there is reciprocal derogation. English
"take French leave" is (or was) </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>matched
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>by French "filer ŕ l'anglaise". Any other
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