30379: Lyall (reply) Chamberlain: 30357: Collesano on names ending in 'ius' (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

jdlyall writes:
> Thank you, David Collesano and Legrace Benson, for your interesting
> explanations about Latin surnames in Haiti.
>
> But why are they made fun of these days by (some) ordinary people in PauP?
> What feeling about them has survived since the colony?
>
>
>         Greg Chamberlain

Because they are 'Bouki'. Moun deyo; Moun anwo. Hillbillies.
That is the presumption. Country people who have remained free and poor in the 
outback. Now they are in the city with country ways.