Sunday, February 19, 2017

1466-Caller-Tom-Irish-Pennant by A Way with Words

An ex-Marine reports that his commanding officer used to castigate his men for any stray threads hanging from their uniforms, calling those loose threads Irish pennants. That term is an ethnophaulism, or ethnic slur. via Pocket http://ift.tt/2md1ZAE

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