Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regional speech patterns vary, but many Negroes-and whites living in similar circumstances of cultural isolation-speak a nonstandard English (linguists call it "dialectolalia") with common characteristics. They may slur words as in "sawrat" (it's all right), "sisfirshear" (it's his first year) and "smothertam" (some other time). The sounds of f and r may be dropped as "hep yo sef" or "sistah." The th sound turns to f: "bofe" for both. Errant grammar includes "he be absent," "he do," "my mother, she done gone...
...slur on my firm!" cried Herbert Hill. "We will get Mr. Wilson by the ears before long." It took more than a year, but Hill's Hardy Spicer, Ltd., car-parts manufacturing company in Birmingham, did at least get Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 49, by the tongue a bit. Wilson's counsel appeared in London's High Court of Justice to deliver a handsome apology from the Prime Minister after he was charged with "libeling and slandering" Hill during the 1964 general elections campaign by suggesting that the Hardy Spicer management had fomented...
...Married Woman was recommended for banning by France's Commission de la Censure. Much of its footage consists of couples in bed with no clothes on. But what turned out to be worrying the Commission was not nudity but an implied slur on the grandeur of French domesticity; the ban was rescinded when the article in the title was changed from The to A, no longer implying that the adulterous lady in question was typical of women in France. And anyway, those naked bodies in bed are about as sexy as an illustrated lecture on dermatology−lots...
...break and run in battle, as did the 39th Ranger Battalion earlier this year. The 39th became known as "the roadrunners." But during the Quangngai fight "the roadrunners" stood their ground on a conical hill called Nuitran. There 108 of them were wiped out, erasing in the process the slur on their battalion's name...
...vestigial in the carnivorous septibranch bivalves"; what, have not the carnivorous septibranch bivalves their own vivacious style? "The style is present in only those herbivorous gastropods which feed by cilia or by slow radular action; in archeogastropods (e.g., Lunella) the style is mucus rod"; will Lunella tolerate such a slur? "Carnivorous snails have no style." The last straw...