Ah - thanks for the variants on the \ufffd sound.. now makes sense of some pronunciations I've heard of say, f\ufffdhrer that sounded more like 'f\ufffdee-rer'. So it's your version of Soth'rn dialect hereabouts.

Schickelgruber. whew. I should have gotten that from the ubiquitous 'Schick' of razor fame; obviously not an immigrant from Barcelona. :(

On another note - sign seen in a submarine, F\ufffdhrer Befiehl Wir Folgen (not sure of the h - maybe said 'befiel'?) which I took to mean: The Leader Wills; We Follow. Close enough?

I wonder.. if Harry Truman ever heard that derivation, 'hatmaker' (he, briefly, of the haberdasher trade, a common diss of the day). Should have brought a chuckle:

End of WW-II: a haberdasher fought a hatmaker er haberdasher too !! Cackle.

Well CRC, it's a dirty job but.. some of us have to try to rescue language from the admen and televangelists. Why?