Gook (???) (1912) -- Goo-goo

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:49 PM -0500 3/16/05, sagehen wrote:
>  >Thanks, Doug. So, "gook" rather coincides with "wog." In my youth,
>>Aussie friends applied the latter term to anyone who wasn't
>>sufficiently fair-skinned as to merit inclusion into the WASPocracy,
>>yet not so dark-skinned as to be considered a nigger. Hence, "wog"
>>was applied to Southern Europeans of all nationalities, Asians,
>>Indian Indians, etc., unless such a person's speech revealed him to
>>be an American. In that case, all bets were off.
>>
>>-Wilson Gray
>  ~~~~~~~~
>Wasn't the slogan of this point of view "The wogs begin at Dover"?
>AM
>
I thought they began at Calais ("their" side of the Channel crossing)...

Larry