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What the debate is about now is that instead of the traditional protestant/catholic, jews, romany … Europe is talking about much browner kind of people.
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Later, as we stood outside the smoking ruin that only hours previously had been a fully functional Police Station, I turned to Lestrade, who, wrapped in a tartan blanket, looked for all the world like a romany gypsy.
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I'm skinny, a geek, frizzy haired, brown skinned, part aboriginal, part irish, part romany- ask me about being left out picked on.
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There is some perverse pleasure in imagining every banker having to go through the same ordeal- now,if we can justfind a genuine gypsy with credit problems, with CCJs coming out of her romany tuckus, whose in arrearswe might be able to get the ball rolling on Drag Me To Hell: The Reality Show.
Five Reasons To See DRAG ME TO HELL | Obsessed With Film 2009
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One time he would be a playactor, then a sutler or a welsher, then nought would keep him from the bearpit and the cocking main, then he was for the ocean sea or to hoof it on the roads with the romany folk, kidnapping a squire's heir by favour of moonlight or fecking maids 'linen or choking chicken behind a hedge.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The word roma = gypsy and the language romany = gypsy were invented by the EU after 1990 to create confusion between gypsies and Romanians.
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I heard rumours as a kid that my great grandfather was a romany too.
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I heard rumours as a kid that my great grandfather was a romany too.
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The word roma = gypsy and the language romany = gypsy were invented by the EU after 1990 to create confusion between gypsies and Romanians.
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The word roma = gypsy and the language romany = gypsy were invented by the EU after 1990 to create confusion between gypsies and Romanians.
lucidityprevails commented on the word romany
The language of Gypsies.
January 12, 2007