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tony cooper  
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 More options Oct 25 2012, 10:11 am
Newsgroups: alt.slack, alt.usage.english, alt.usenet.kooks
From: tony cooper <tony.cooper...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:11:06 -0400
Local: Thurs, Oct 25 2012 10:11 am
Subject: Re: Anachronism?
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:23:32 +0100, "Guy Barry"

<guy.ba...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>"tony cooper"  wrote in message
>news:kftg88tq86uqgmg23vrbv1ven0g6nd20nr@4ax.com...

>> If, today, we refer to "Negro dialect", there are some certain to take
>> offense.  "Negro" is not an acceptable term for today's use.  (With
>> some exceptions as in the NAACP or the United Negro College Fund)

>"NAACP" stands for "National Association for the Advancement of Colored
>People".  While there are questions about whether "colo(u)red" is an
>acceptable term these days, the word "Negro" doesn't appear in the title.

Correct.  I was thinking of the also-denigrated term "colored".

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida


 
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