LL-L "Ethnicity" 2005.09.24 (09) [E]

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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2005.09.24 (01) [E]

"even the Encyclopedia Brittannica doesn´t know the
Rusyns."

My mother's side of the family is from southeastern Nebraska, USA. I have
never seen this spelled, but he always referred to some people in Lincoln
and environs as "The [Rooshans." Are these Rusyns those people, and how
would one spell that word?
Ben


Hey, Ben!

Apparently you're right there, and so is your spelling.

Pennsylvania Coal Region dialect:

"Da Rooshans:
The Russians, as in the wry, rueful statement: "Da Rooshans'll never bomb us 
out; Looks like we awreddy been gone over." --- Because of the landscape we 
saw whenever we looked around. This was some slight consolation in the early 
Cold War days."

"The Rusyns:
Not the Russians --- but pronounced Rooshans. Immigrants from (take your 
pick), northwest Ukraine, south Poland, east Slovakia; Whom we usually 
called Greek Catholic, because they considered themselves Byzantine 
Catholic. Greek Catholics are Roman Catholics but instead of following the 
Latin tradition they celebrate an Eastern Slavonic (English, now) Liturgy in 
an Eastern-Church environment (more like Greek, rather than Russian).Their 
churches display the Byzantine Cross, of three crossbars with the lowest 
slanted, and the typical onion domes of Eastern Europe and Russia."

http://users.erols.com/sfpayer/CoalR/commcoalr.htm

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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