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30379: Lyall (reply) Chamberlain: 30357: Collesano on names ending in 'ius' (fwd)





jdlyall writes:
Thank you, David Collesano and Legrace Benson, for your interesting
explanations about Latin surnames in Haiti.

But why are they made fun of these days by (some) ordinary people in PauP?
What feeling about them has survived since the colony?


        Greg Chamberlain

Because they are 'Bouki'. Moun deyo; Moun anwo. Hillbillies.
That is the presumption. Country people who have remained free and poor in the outback. Now they are in the city with country ways.