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Letter: Euro-insults

Arthur Hamilton
Tuesday 08 December 1998 00:02 GMT
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Euro-insults

Sir: Defining them as Huns mitigates his offence, but does David Aaronovitch (Comment, 3 December) have to use the American term "krauts" when the traditional English word of abuse for Germans is "boche", which can be usefully enhanced to sales boches. As a supporter of European integration should he not be using European terms of abuse?

ARTHUR HAMILTON

Osterley Park, Middlesex

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