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To: Frank_Discussion

The big one, the "N" word.


6 posted on 08/05/2005 5:58:46 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Ohhh... Norman. Got it. Ten Little Normans.


8 posted on 08/05/2005 6:00:06 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: yarddog

For the record, I do not believe that it was ever as perjorative in England as it turned out to be in the U.S. Chesterton and Belloc use it simply as an adjective, the way one might say Turk or Mongol.


11 posted on 08/05/2005 6:04:14 PM PDT by sittnick (There's no salvation in politics.)
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