Re: [Gendispatch] another possibly problematic word

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 08/09/2020 12:38, Salz, Rich wrote:
> This was news to me.  FYI

I believe it's archaic slang, that wasn't ever very common
and perhaps only commonly used before the 1960's but that's
just my impression from general reading and listening and
could well vary from place to place, and time to time, the
word being slang.

I'm currently unconvinced by that one tbh. And not that
convinced that curated lists of dodgy words is a good way
to handle this. (*)

S.

(*) That may be due to also originating from a place where
censorship was still somewhat common in my youth - in our
case the censors were mainly interested in religion and
maintaining their ideas of the good bits of the social
status quo. One of their last gasps was banning "the life
of Brian" movie;-)

> 
> From: "Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <rwilton=[e-mail]> … A
> separate issue that we may want to consider relates to use of the
> word/term “nonce”.  In British English this term is slang for a
> paedophile,
> https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nonce<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__dictionary.cambridge.org_dictionary_english_nonce&d=DwMGaQ&c=96ZbZZcaMF4w0F4jpN6LZg&r=4LM0GbR0h9Fvx86FtsKI-w&m=h3vPGHnErcFST8UylIdbLohcl4jQGcLXlgr6I_5jpwk&s=4NlmGbVCeTGF1CWzghVwoa1yDT9sIiWHbnji9xdIlzE&e=>
>
>  I’m not saying that we should necessarily change this, but we might
> want to consider whether there is an alternative equivalent term that
> could be used instead. …
> 
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