[Ads-l] A shift in spelling

[Wilson Gray]

It appears that what we would have called, back in the day, the "earthy"
spelling of the slang-term for "member of/pertaining to the black
bourgeoisie," _boojie_, has been replaced - on line, at least - by the
*far* more boojie spelling, _bougie_! It has taken me literally weeks to
winkle out the meaning of the T-shirt slogan,

"I ❤️ Bougie Chicks"

et sim. seen on random sites.

-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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