Ethnic-based terms of contempt

[Charles Doyle]

The game that in my Texas childhood was known as Gossip.

In folklore classes I like to mention (if necessary, describe) the game as a sort of laboratory test of how variation occurs in the process of oral transmission . . . .

--Charlie
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>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:10:35 -0600
>From: Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at MISSOURI.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Ethnic-based terms of contempt
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>The BBC article cited earlier today on the "oldest English words" uses >"Chinese whispers" which I take to be the equivalent of the game that I've always known as telephone.

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