Well, my hearing’s probably not what it was & I was doing other things, & young people don’t pronounce their t’s properly these days do they?
When later at night a newsreader with nice clear diction made it plain, I was still puzzled. Why would anyone call a man suttee
Even when light dawned I could not see why Sooty the teddy bear puppet should be regarded as insulting
The point is that we frequently do not know how or why a nickname came to be used; words are freighted with associations & meanings & just because one of them might be considered by some to be insulting, does not mean that it is, or that we have any right to comment or object – just as most of us would not pass comment on the name given to someone by their parents, whatever our opinion of that
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