[Maceman]

"Faggot" is used as "fag" in Britain but it is also the name of a recipe - Faggots and Peas. Also, used as slang for a cigarette in GB. Check it out by googling.

I don't need to check it out. I don't think I have ever met anyone so ill-informed about the world that they wouldn't know that.

But it's pretty clear that here in America, and especially on FR, "faggot" is a deliberately derogatory word used to insult an effeminate or homosexual person.

In the UK, it would be "poofter." You can Goggle it.

[hummingbird]

"In the UK, it would be "poofter." You can Goggle it."

Will do. I've always kind of guessed what "poofter" meant but it wouldn't hurt for me to understand its origins.

Thanks!