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

[Wilson Gray]

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>>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
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>Wasn't the slogan of this point of view "The wogs begin at Dover"?
>AM

Good one! I've never heard that one before, but, as I've noted
elsewhere, I enjoy a well-phrased ethnic or racial slur as well as
anybody else.

-Wilson




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