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You may want to reconsider your choice of word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
by mkl 1y ago
You may want to reconsider your choice of word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog
- pixelpoet 1y agoIt's a common word in (UK, apparently) English, cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doggy_woggy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doggy_woggy I've literally never once heard someone use the ethnic slur "wog", and I grew up in 90s South Africa :)
- strken 1y agoI'm Australian and I might be missing some nuance about other dialects, but doggy-woggy is a completely different word from doggywog. The first is standard rhyming reduplication, while the second is ambiguous but can be read as relating to a couple of different slurs (in my dialect). I have heard people use that word, although a good chunk were using it about themselves and with pride.
- jjgreen 1y agoIt certainly was in the `70s, but faded away after that. Mind you, given the recent surge in popularity of fascists, it might make a comeback.