Citations:Ukie

English citations of Ukie

• Michel Le Lohé, “The effects of the presence of immigrants upon the local political system in Bradford, 1945–77”, in R. Miles, Annie Phizacklea eds. (1979), Racism and political action in Britain, London: Routledge, p 229:

  As he pointed out at the conference on ‘Racism and Political Action in Britain’, competition from the natives of Sunderland caused resentment in 1937, yet, as he shows in his essay, the ‘Polacks’ and ‘Ukies’ after the Second World War apparently attracted little hostility.

• Manoly R. Lupul (1984), Visible symbols: cultural expression among Canada's Ukrainians, Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, p 81:

  Student posters not only in Montreal and Toronto, but everywhere, advertise Ukrainian culture in events where pyrohy and varenyky are served and where “Kovbasa, Beer Bash, Cheap Booze, Ukie Dancing” are featured. Such are our cultural aspirations.

• Robert Archambeau, “Immigrant Languages: Dialogism and the Poetry of North American Migration”, in A. J. Hoenselaars, Marius Buning (1999), English literature and the other languages, Amsterdam: Rodopi, p 84:

  The narrator finds himself “perplexed / what sort of ukie drinks tea / reading the saturday globe and mail?” — that is, he wonders what sort of Ukrainian immigrant emulates English Canada by copying its customs and immersing himself in its discourse (the Toronto Globe and Mail occupying a position in English Canadian culture similar to that of the Times in English culture).

• David Baldwin Clark (2001), Lamone: a novel about the Canadian Army in the Italian Campaign in World War II, Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, p 46:

  “I know. I ain't a fuckin' Ukie from Brandon for nuthin'. Russian's pretty close to Ukrainian.

• James F Murray III (2007), Tunnels, Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, p 47:

  “Well, I think that I was in the second grade then. The bus got back from Union City around 2:30 in the afternoon, and dropped everybody off at the Ukie Center. They had a great meal, all kinds of Ukrainian food, fresh ham, black bread, pirogies, you name it.