Talk:Ghotis
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[edit] Not Derogatory
As with Bangals, Ragib states in the history that the term Ghoti is derogatory. In my direct experience, it is not. My wife is a Ghoti and routinely refers to herself and her family with that term. In almost every meeting between Bengali Hindus that I have witnessed, there is always a brief discussion regarding whether the other person is a Ghoti or a Bangal and there is never any hint that the term is derogatory
[edit] move
The article needs to be moved to "Ghoti" but that is already being used by the word referring to English linguistics. Move to Ghoti (ethnic) and disambiguation is necessary. Any idea on this? -- Urnonav 14:21, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation
According to George Bernard Shaw, Ghoti can be pronounced fish!?!?!?
Tabletop 12:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
See the page for Ghoti... LacsiraxAriscal (talk) 20:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Ghoti surnames
Surnames are related to castes and not to any geographical regions. This surname section contains basically wrong information. It should be repealed. Arnab Dutta 08:15, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
- Arnab is correct. Surnames depend on castes as opposed to regions. However, there may be surnames that occur only among Ghotis or Bangals, but they have nothing to do with region. Therefore this section should be removed. BengaliHindu (talk) 11:20, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
- Yes,and there is a lot of inconsistencies , surname sen is way more common in bangals than ghotis. Also Poriya, Hati or Mallick are distinctly Ghoti surnames.
Another is Mitra tends to be commoner in Ghotis while Moitro and Lahiri are most probably bangals.
Kar is predominantly Bangal but ghotis also exist. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.96.164.212 (talk) 18:40, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
