How do You Pronounce, "Polaczkow"?

How do You Pronounce, "Polaczkow"?

I can't quite get mouth/head around how to pronounce it?

Polatschkuw

Pol-lat-schkuw?

I guess like this: [pɔ'latʂkuf]

I wonder, why do you want to know how to pronounce this rather derogatory term for "Poles"?

It is a Polish word I keep coming across, used by Poles, no-one in any other knows the word let alone uses it.
What does it mean exactly?
is it Something the American expression "White Trash", or that new word the English hav come up with, "Chav"?

On the internet?


Grammatically "Polaczki" is a diminutive of "Polacy" (Poles). But as far as I know it's used solely in a derogatory way (or ironical, at best). I guess one can say that it's an equivalent of "Pollacken" in German and "Polacks" in English.

Yes.

I got the feeling it a put-down word, I thought, for rough, poor, uneducated Poles, maybe something like "Hill Billy" in America, is this right ? or is it more like a "Little Polanda" put down, or the Swedish, "Swen Swendson", "typical Swede" put down?

Unfortunately most Poles in the UK are "Polaczkow".
Losers, beggars, scroungers and criminals.

Here's a good example.. In Holland.