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A roughly approximate atonal pronunciation is thus mā-gwō . A family resemblance, to be sure, but far from “me gook.”
To call a brown-skinned person a gook may be reinforced by words in his own language, Chinese Mee Gook for “beautiful country,” or Korean Myguk (My = “America” + guk = “country”), but the word is extraordinarily derogatory, reinforced by, if not derived from the common English slang gobbledegook (the brown man's language) and gook (his food).
So, back to my question: In which Chinese language is America `me gook”?
Henry Henn gets a linguistic maggie's drawers for “'Nam, Gook, Gung-ho: Nonsense” [XIV,2].
Recent communications by Henn [XIV,3], Cragg [XV,1], and Powers [XV,2] on the origins of `Gook' have led me to research the matter.
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