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Thread #154768   Message #3633773
Posted By: MGM·Lion
17-Jun-14 - 12:28 AM
Thread Name: Jews Harp banned?
Subject: RE: Jews Harp banned?
I don't think anyone has claimed 'Jaw['s] Harp' as being 'new' as a name for the widespread instrument known also as the 'trump' &c &c &c; nor even that it is used euphemistically to avoid the apparent ref to The Chosen People. It has long gone by many different names. But why should calling it by what is probably the most usual name in English arouse such hostility or resentment anyhow? Is there supposed to be something improper or unmentionable in the very use of the term 'Jew' in any context? or what? And if so, why? I don't play the twangly thing myself; but if I did I should probably call it by the best-known name, at that.

~M~