UKer

[Herb Stahlke]

Or as "Yooker" by analogy to Yooper?

Herb

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> At 2/4/2011 11:51 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>Last summer I reported "USer" ("you-esser") used by people too squeamish to
>>say American. Now I find a parallel "UKer" :
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> Presumably pronounced "ucker"?  Good-oh.
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> Joel
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