More PC definitions_ mainly manila
We already know about 'picnic' and 'niggardly' Some more innocuous words have been granted connotations of slavery days....
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Manila hemp is not true hemp, it comes from the abaca plant.Abaca:www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dicti...y&va=abacaHemp:www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dicti...&x=20&y=13
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"Manito" or "manita"? Again, not so obvious as it might seem ....www.analitica.com/bitblio...manito.asp
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Thanks Douglas for the interesting article. I had never run across "la manito", or if I had I thought it was a typo or hadn't heard correctly.It is pretty strange to my ear, I think I'll stick with...
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Incidentally, which "manil[l]a" do the hemp and the envelopes derive from? I thought the city, but since Lionello stated they were misnomers, do they actually indicate "handmade" or something from...
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Mock as you will, but you've just made things MORE complicated by telling me that the English added a second L to the Spanish's "manila" [hemp, fiber].I cannot recall ever seeing "manilla hemp" or...
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Lionello, you read my mind. When I was a kid I heard about vanilla envelopes and I definitely wanted to get my hands on some. Really.
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Well documented alternate spelling :: Manilla Hemp (4,150)Appears to be common British spelling :: Manilla Envelope (19,300)100th post!
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I really thought the strong point in Lionello's argument was the fact that vanilla used to be spelled vainilla. Just as Manila used to be spelled Maynila.That ai -> a shift is hard to refute! Far...
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Summing up: The Spanish acquired a city named Maynila or Maynilad, respelled it as "Manila", while resisting the temptation to respell it as "Manilla" to match an existing word of theirs...and then...
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I don't think I understand what's going on here.
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I think my last post summed it up clearly. But now that I'm on board, you're free to be confused. "Conservation of Befuddlement" Law, you know.
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Darn it Chris! I thought that maybe by the time of my 100th posting I wouldn't be so confused! :) Congrats, even if I'm a newbie and haven't seen all your posts.So, at this point, I believe billyh has...
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None PC words, I worked in a Government Department dealing with people and I happened to say one day to someone "stop nitpicking will you" and was threatened by the Manager to be reported for...
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Probably a mutation of the (equally mistaken) notion that "nitty-gritty" refers to dirt in the holds of slave ships and is therefore somehow racist.
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Your manager was probably getting "nit-picking" mixed up somehow with "picaninny" (sp?).
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Given the logic of some of these word-bannings, I'm eagerly waiting to hear the term "whipped cream" denounced as racist. After all, they whipped slaves, didn't they?And what about "chain letter"?
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I object strongly to "chain letter". Why not "chain lettim"?
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I object strongly to "chain letter". Why not "chain lettim"? Cause then "spam" would become "spir"
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"fugghead" and "friggin"i now a teenage boy who was recently suspended from school for wearing a shirt that said "feakin Sweet" on the front of it. the explanation was that "it was so close to using...
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"....suspended from school for wearing a shirt that said "feakin Sweet" on the front of it."Wouldn't surprise me if the offending garment had been produced by 'French Connection, United Kingdom,' and...
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