Good few interesting threads recently - Gypsy and Nigger (or Wop, Spick, Spade, Dago, Polack, Mick - choose your own ethnic insult) are non PC at the moment. When, however, will the terms traveller and black become so? While I heartily agree that no-one has the right to subject anyone to terms which cause both offence and upset, who is it who writes the rules? We seem to have gone through our worst excesses of militant PC-ism(banning Enid Blyton books was one of the worse I came across!) but it still lurks there. I have recently seen a local council trying to ban the terms BC and AD as they are offensive to non-christians. A blackboard must still be refered to as a chalkboard in some areas and heaven help anyone talking about a chairman - even if the person in the chair IS male! Being too PC can have a very negative effect and end up becoming self-defeating.

As our english teacher used to say - discuss....

Dave (English/Welsh/Polish/Russian with a hint of Irish) the Gnome

BTW - there are only 2 things I hate. Racial predjudice and the French;-)