My post wasn’t as precisely worded, or punctuated, as it might have been. I meant polite, as well as liberal, society. And I was referring to the written form of the word. You are referring to the spoken form in the Northern part of the state, where they spoke “Southern”. I grew up in Miami, which in those days was, essentially, New York with palm trees.
I’ve heard other words that were in use in Mami.