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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear oh dear.
>
> BEGIN RANT ...
>
> I really get 'teed' off with Political (bloody) Correctness. What a complete
> pile of crud that subject is.
>
> For example, a black, Somalian, Muslim friend of mine (George Bush must
> really hate him) hates being called 'coloured' because, as he says, he is
> black. Not only that, he used to collect the Golliwogs from jam jars. He is
> not offended by being called black nor is he offended by black boards, black
> balls, black marks or anything else with black in it.
>
<snip>
The song "Old Man River" in Showboat had originally "... niggers all
work while de white folk play". That has been sensitised to ""...
coloured folk work.... ".
Christina Rosetti wrote, in her poem used by Harold Darke for the hymn
"In the bleak midwinter", " ... a breastful of milk". The Victorians
changed that to "... a heart full of mirth".
Daft,
Tony
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