An excerpt from Michener's 1963 novel Caravans, page 9: "I was always bemused by the
Afghan word for
foreigner. When the first
Asian students saw this ugly word, with its even uglier connotations, the unaccustomed combination of g and n perplexed them, so they invented an expressive pronunciation which included all the letters, heavily fraught with hatred, envy and contempt. Some pronounced it ferangi, with a hard g, some feranji, others foreggin, but it meant the same."