SC - ?OOP Taffy
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri Feb 5 08:46:19 PST 1999
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 snowfire at mail.snet.net wrote:
>
> > BTW Taffy is also the nickname for a Welsh person - like myself!!! ;-)
>
> Only if said Welsh person's name is David (Dafydd).
>
> 'Lainie
> -
> Laura C. Minnick
> University of Oregon
> Department of English
>
As a Britishism, Taffy is a synonym for Welshman and is often tied to
disapprobation for the Welsh.
As a nickname, even the Welsh don't strictly adhere to using it for Dafydd,
as Eugene O'Callaghan could have told you.
Bear
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