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tole · 12-21-2005, 10:30 AM

Hi everybody,
I need to check two Hungarian expressions "piri neni" and "marci bacsi". I found they may be proper names followed by words denoting familial relationships: aunt and uncle, respectively. Are they rather formal (like, e.g., Aunt Margaret) or not (like Auntie Maggie)?

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tole Junior Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 6 tole is an unknown character at this point	Hungarian idioms? Hi everybody, I need to check two Hungarian expressions "piri neni" and "marci bacsi". I found they may be proper names followed by words denoting familial relationships: aunt and uncle, respectively. Are they rather formal (like, e.g., Aunt Margaret) or not (like Auntie Maggie)? Last edited by tole; 12-21-2005 at 12:57 PM.
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