[Lexicog] Re: White man names

[Fritz Goerling]

Bill,

 

I don't get the meaning/point of "par-boiled."

 

Fritz

 

In some dialects of Carrier here in British Columbia, white people
are known as "par-boiled". In some others they are "Boston" (from the
origin of many ships in the coastal trade).

Bill Poser



 

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