Monday 12 May 2014

Herzegovernor

Herzegovernor: noun. A Herzegovernor is an archaic term for someone who is culturally far more Herzegovine than Bosnian. What is interesting about this is that in modern terms, Herzegovernor is not a demonym and the Herzegovine part of the name for the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina itself is derived from a region called Herzegovina and not from an ethnically distinct minority. Still, though there is no evidence that any true Herzegovernors exist, the word has survived to be used about 1.02 times per year in professional publications.

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