Racial epithet makes news

[Jim Parish]

Charles C Doyle wrote:
> 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.)

Ohhh! So *that's* what Harry Belafonte was singing in "Land of the Sea and Sun":

"Once I had a notion 'bout this Bajan girl..."

Hunh.

Jim Parish

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