Comments on: On the ethnic slur watch http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/on-the-ethnic-slur-watch/ A blog mostly about language Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joseph F Foster http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/on-the-ethnic-slur-watch/#comment-38454 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:42:07 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11977#comment-38454 Readers may find useful and interesting this link to Ives Goddard’s article on the origin of the redskin term and the relative recency of its pejorative connotations.

http://anthropology.si.edu/goddard/redskin.pdf

This link is to a discussion of the topic on Language Log some 6+ years ago.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002961.html

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