Timeline for Does "the N-word" have implications other than a word used for racial discrimination?
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| May 10, 2014 at 21:34 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | Isn't the C word now used to mean Cancer? | |
| Apr 8, 2014 at 10:07 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Yes, "D-Day" was originally a general term, but now is generally associated with the particular D-Day of the 6th of June. Amusingly, twice when my ex-wife was pregnant with our second child, someone asked "when's D-Day?" using a common enough analogy (an analogy that works two ways, as it can also be taken as "Due-Day"), and assumed I was joking when I said "the 6th of June", as she was indeed due then. | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 22:37 | comment | added | Mynamite | @MT_Head I was sure I had seen this on a history programme but I admit I can find no reference in a quick 10 minute search online - everything suggests D is for day, though there's lots of speculation about D for departure, decision etc. The closest I can find is this site which mentions an X day and Y day. My bad! | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 22:36 | comment | added | MT_Head | @Mynamite - The US Navy's history FAQ simply defines D-Day as "Day set for assault by land forces"; you might be thinking of the later operations that were renamed to avoid confusion (A-Day, L-Day, X-Day, etc.): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_(military_term) | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 22:15 | comment | added | MT_Head | @Mynamite - Do you have a citation for that? 'Cause I've seen a lot of citations to say that it did just stand for Day, e.g. pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_info.html | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 20:03 | comment | added | Mynamite | @MT_Head Though the D in D-Day doesn't stand for day. Days A, B and C were lined up as possible days for invading Normandy but were not suitable. Conditions were right on D-Day. | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 9:22 | history | edited | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Having this word unelided adds nothing that justifies such use.
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| Feb 23, 2013 at 0:11 | comment | added | MT_Head | @JonHanna - "The W-word" is strangely reminiscent of D-day and H-hour, no? (It would be perfect if the word being elided were actually "word", but that's too much to ask for.) | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 23:25 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @mgb Excellent example of a completely different reason to avoid exactly the same word. It reminds me too of the theory that one reason witches outside of the lines that first used The Wicca to refer to themselves also started using that term is "to avoid the W-word", which is an amusing way to phrase it, since they're both W-words. (Not that I agree with that theory, but that's another matter). | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 23:19 | comment | added | mgb | NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) machines - the big donut body scanners, are now called MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imagers) to avoid the "N" word. I was explaining to an American how we had to avoid the "N" word when talking to the public. He was very confused why a physics dept would use "nigger" but too polite to ask | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 21:37 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Feb 22, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | @KitFox or the same ambiguity used in the Scott Pilgrim comic books, where someone says "the L-word" referring to Love, and Scott misunderstands and replies "Lesbians?!" | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 13:51 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | Kinda like that show "The L-word." | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 9:57 | history | edited | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2013 at 9:49 | history | answered | Jon Hanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |