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Thread #134055   Message #3047321
Posted By: GUEST,Patsy
06-Dec-10 - 07:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Potentially Offensive Dict Definitions
Subject: RE: BS: Potentially Offensive Dict Definitions
My parents are from a time socially when things were different regarding the things you could say and sometimes as above they might use words that are similar and yet they were as much against the Nazis as anyone. Sometimes I feel I have to distance myself away from them incase they forget what they are saying.

Back in my youth during the 70s and 80s too girls who might have been very flirty or had been known (on heresay mind you) to be a bit free and easy would have been called a scrubber or slag or tart which is a sexist thing to say.

The word that crops up a lot these days seems to be Chav (Vicky Pollard) type girls pink puffa jacket leggings and toddlers in tow when really Chavvy is a girl child from the Roma community.