UKer

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:38 PM -0500 2/4/11, Herb Stahlke wrote:
>Or as "Yooker" by analogy to Yooper?
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>Herb

Or as "Uecker" because they're such cards?

LH

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>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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