n-heads

[Mullins, Bill]

One wonders what people will look back on, a hundred years from now, in
amazement at our lack of sensistivity.

-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Wilson Gray
Sent: Mon 1/31/2005 10:09 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: n-heads
 
 Was there really a time in this country
when ethnic and racial slurs were so common that a professional
lexicographer felt free to define one slur by another slur, without the
need for further explanation? Clearly, there was.