I thought that I would bust a gut laughing with that one. When I was a kid an old Mountenegrin named Milutin Kovacevic told me his version of the origin of the term bohunk. During world war 1 there were a lot of Austrians working in the Shanango mine where he worked but when the ware ended, somehow, there wern't any Austrians. There were Slovenians, Croations, Serbians, Ruthenians, Russans, Slovaks,Galicians, even some Italian speeking Tyroleans who came to this country with Austrian passports. One of the mining company management people came up with the explanation that they were all bohunks. It's funny but we never felt stygmatized by that term. Donald Marinkovich ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. A. 'Dutch' Martinich" <dutchm@dcn.davis.ca.us> To: <CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:40 PM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Pittsburg and St. Louis industries? > In California, the common term for both Croats and Serbs was > 'Slavonian'. A local term in the Santa Clara Valley was > 'Jebentibogas'. I'll let Robert or Frank translate that if they are > up to it. <grin> > D. > > >I have heard of Croatians referred to as Bull-hunks, etc. > >Dave > > > > > >______________________________ > > > -- >