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[Douglas G. Wilson]

>How is the word, funky, pronounced in BE? It's pronounced as though
>something like "fonky," right? Now, suppose that there was an ordinary
>word of American English, hunky, that was originally used as a term of
>opprobrium for certain peoples of Central-European extraction. Now, how
>would this word, hunky, be pronounced in BE? It might well be
>pronounced something like "honky," right? Is that a reasonable
>supposition?

I hope it's reasonable, because it's my supposition too.

-- Doug Wilson