Author: Quas.co.uaQuas.co.ua Date: Dec 6, 2006 12:52
Valentyn Katrechko wrote:
>> By the way spelling "uke" is my invention before used "yuk".
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> Sorry, "uke" is _not_ your "invention".
> The term "uke" started being popular back in the sixties in the US and
> Canada.
This word used yet at the and 40xx in London but in spelling "YUK".
Sometimes together with "rain" as "Yuk Rain"
> It was used mostly by young English-speaking people of Ukrainian
> descent, who used it as a tongue-in-cheek description of themselves.
> One of the examples is a popular web site, created by such people:
> http://www.infoukes.com/
>
> BTW: the correct spelling of "whome" is "whom"
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