Re: [Corpora-List] Numpties and bennies

From: Nicholas Sanders (nix@semiotek.org)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2006 - 13:34:16 MET

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Nope - no PC problems on the Scottish side of my family!

On 6 Dec 2006, at 12:06, Harold Somers wrote:

> A colleague has just emailed me suggesting that the word "numpty" has
> become non-PC because of its association with Downs syndrome. I've
> never
> made that association ... Has anyone else?

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