They say Bosniak, the OED ...

Sun Oct 5 04:31:55 UTC 2008

At 10/4/2008 11:55 PM, Doug_Harris wrote:
>A NYT op-ed piece by Charles M. Blow (10/3) was footnoted:
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>Correction: October 4, 2008
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>An earlier version of this column misspelled an ethnic term for Muslims in
>Bosnia and Herzegovina, and incorrectly claimed that Senator Joseph R. Biden
>Jr. had made a mistake in using it. The correct spelling is Bosniak, not
>Bosniac, and Mr. Biden's usage was correct.

Unfortunately, Bosniak is not in the OED -- but Bosniac (n.) and
Bosnian (a. and n.) both are.

Joel

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>dh
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>Bill M wondered:
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>So what did the Perception Analyzer do when Biden referred to residents
>of Bosnia as "Bosniacs"?
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