New Ethnic Term

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:25 PM -0700 5/29/02, Towse wrote:
>  >
>>  So, 'arabe' became 'abe-ar' became 'beur.'
>>
>>  Further surfing shows the 'beur' tag attached to the bicultural
>>  younger set that is both Arab and French but neither Arab nor
>>  French.
>
>... and further surfing shows 'beur' for Arab being common enough
>in 1994 to be discussed on the LINGUIST list in a discussion of
>verlan.
>
><http://www.emich.edu/~linguist/issues/5/5-764.html>
>
>Sal

Is it relevant to anything that this ethnoterm would appear to be a
homophone with "beurre" 'butter'?