I most certainly agree. We're a bunch of softies, we are.
Slumry, if it's the news I'm thinking of, it wasn't apocryphal. Such a fuss over a word that merely sounded offensive....
Then they would need to take a second look, wouldn't they? I remember a perhaps-apocryphal story aout a crusade against the word niggardly. There is enough genuinely racist speech to object to; we don't need to imagine it where it does not exist.
It's a funny word but I hate to type it lest someone skip over the first letter somehow when they're reading it.
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I most certainly agree. We're a bunch of softies, we are.
Slumry, if it's the news I'm thinking of, it wasn't apocryphal. Such a fuss over a word that merely sounded offensive....
Then they would need to take a second look, wouldn't they? I remember a perhaps-apocryphal story aout a crusade against the word niggardly. There is enough genuinely racist speech to object to; we don't need to imagine it where it does not exist.
It's a funny word but I hate to type it lest someone skip over the first letter somehow when they're reading it.
snicker