Boers and Other Sundry Topicks

[Sojourner]

Steven Maas (CUTR)" <maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu> writes:

>Sojourner writes: 
>> to mind, what with the struggle in Zuid Afrika even today between the
>> Afrikaaner "Dutch" and the English "Boers" (or literally, "red neck"
>> hehehe).  
>
>The Boers _are_ the Afrikaaners.  I'm not sure what the English in South
>Africa were/are called. 
>
>	Steve Maas


We think of the Boers as the Afrikaaners now, but it is one of those Sundry
and Wily Historickal Misteaks.  The word "boer" itself means "red", and
referred to the British soldiers in the Boer War (1800's i think early).
The British, being fair-Skinned and Pallid Chaps, were Burnt quite Fully and
Roundly by the Tropickal Sunne.  hehehe the original rednecks.  In any
event, I was just trying to flesh out perhaps some subtle rib-poking on
TRP's part by sustaining a mild tension between the Dutch and English
characters of the book, with everything from the Vrooms to the William of
Orange reference.

Anyone, btw, got any info on the Nefarious and Tragick Battle of Quiberon Bay?


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