Timeline for When should I use 'sounds like, and when 'sounds as if'?
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| Jan 14, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | WS2 | The books were around in the 1980s when our children were at the age for them. We were assured by liberal friends that it was only at a superficial level that they appeared to embody every racial stereotype - Black Jumbo & Mumbo etc. Anyway our family emerged as resolute racial egalitarians. But I can just imagine the controversy in Tennessee! From what I have read the originals are believed to have played a part in establishing the name Sambo as a racial slur. | |
| Jan 14, 2014 at 21:18 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | That's an amusing anecdote. I was living in Tennessee when there was a great national furor over "Little Black Sambo". Times were simpler then, I guess. :) | |
| Jan 14, 2014 at 21:13 | comment | added | WS2 | Very comprehensive answer. Sambo (my English master), rest his soul, would have been impressed. There was no racist reason nor intent in his nickname. His real name was Stephen Michael Bates, and the only reason we called him Sambo was because his initials were SMB. | |
| Jan 14, 2014 at 21:08 | vote | accept | WS2 | ||
| Jan 14, 2014 at 21:05 | history | answered | anongoodnurse | CC BY-SA 3.0 |