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I was recently reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" to a class of High School kids, and, if you know the book well you know that it frequently refers to African American's as n-----s. There is no way to describe how awful I think that word is. And yet I had to hear the kids read it over and over during that class, and I never actually took the time to explain to them how they should never ever refer to African Americans in that way ( I was filling in for their regular teacher and I was quite sure that he had informed his class as to the nature of the language, date of publication of the book, southern US culture, etc.) Still, I havent' forgotten that day. I would use every curse word in the book 10x over before I ever mention that word.
On a lighter note, like a previous poster, I hate 'panties'. It sounds so ridiculous. Its like when little boys call their penis their peepee or weewee. Grown women need a grown up name for their underwear, like underwear.
I hate it when American's talk about Canadians saying "eh" and "aboot". (We do say eh, and I don't appologise for it, but I've never heard anyone say aboot)
I'm sure there are others but I am out...
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