mon., 15 sept., 2014: s. african class distinctions, i.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

AFRIKAANS:   So’n Bergie!  ‡‡

   ‡ )  “What a down-&-outer hillbilly bum!”  Lit.,  “Mountain person”  =  i.e.,  usually pejorative term for  “down-&-outer”,  “vagrant”,  “street person”,  “Homeless person”,  “Bum” ;  Etym.,  Capetown idom derived fr. Afrikaans,  Dutch,  Germ.,  Berg  =  Mtn.;  refered to Capetown’s Table Mtn.,  site of vagrant encampments

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