FOR the benefit of David Lacey and Peter Dolan (HAS, both Page 9, Jan 13) I will try to explain the difference between words like “Geordie” and words like “Paki”. Geordie is a name which Tyneside ...

References including "field work" and "going into the field" may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers "that are not benign", the school of social work at the University ...

It has 500 pupils, scores of classrooms, a headmistress, staffroom and playground. But woe betide anyone who refers to Watercliffe Meadow as a school. The word has been banished since it opened in ...

What image do you get when you hear the word ‘drug’? Write a word or phrase that is associated with the term ‘drug’? When I asked the participants to answer these two questions at a workshop on ...

Recently on The John Walsh Show, Walsh introduced his white supremacist guests, explaining they preferred to be identified as “racialists” not “racists.” Walsh maintained an aura of tolerance for his ...

Yes it does have a negative connotation especially when used with slave. Many people will roll their eyes and make it appear that the case of someone using the negative connotation of master/slave in ...

In his letter to the editor, Jack Elder talked about the definition of the word “Dixie” (“‘Dixie’ isn’t racist,” July 26). We must remember the English language is a living, constantly changing thing.

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