Racial epithet makes news

[Robin Hamilton]

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> Poster:       Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> Subject:      Re: Racial epithet makes news
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> Working on a totally unrelated task, I just came across the term "Bajan,"
> a variant of "Badian" ('Barbadian'). New to me!  (The OED does not mark
> the form "Bajan" as offensive.)
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> --Charlie

Sounds as if he might be related to Rank Bajin, a notorious figure from the
US West who features in the Lobey Dosser cartoon series published in the
Glasgow _Evening Times_, beginning in the late forties:

        http://netsavvy.co.uk/lobey/cast.htm

Robin

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