1980: Germans Calling Italians 'Welsh' Derogatorily May 17, 2020

Although its country is significantly smaller even than the state surrounding the German capital, German has two words for the Welsh language. The one that one could expect to hear is 'walisisch', but there is another, more archaic one 'welsch'. This one not only has derogatory undertones, but also is used to describe speakers of Romance languages, particularly Italian and French, so it's less precise. This is even used in the German name for the Italian province Trentino, 'Welschtirol' (Latin Tyrol), particularly because there is already another region Südtirol (South Tyrol), which have both historically been German-speaking areas, lost in WWI.

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