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Thread #113747   Message #2438342
Posted By: Richard Bridge
12-Sep-08 - 10:37 AM
Thread Name: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Subject: RE: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Still a lot of deliberate idiocy here and bigoted denigration of English traditions.

By the way Romany Man I think I am right that there is a collective noun amongst the Roma for the non-Roma. Might it be something like "gaujo" - I have not stopped to look up? My impression was that it was used to distinguish, and not fondly.

There definitely is a word used widely by Roma to distinguish and express disapproval of non-Romany travellers. Ironically it is one also and erroneusly used by gaujo (with disapproval) of gypsies: "Diddicoy".