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"Dave Plowfool" wrote in message ...

Collins GEM English Dictionary
Gypsy n., pl. -sies. member of a travelling people found throughout
Europe.

Hello hapless harasser.

Cambridge Dictionary

gypsy noun
(UK also gipsy) /ˈdʒɪp.si/ n [C] (also Romany)
a member of a race of people originally from northern India who typically
used to travel from place to place, and now live especially in Europe and
North America
a gypsy caravan/encampment

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

gypsy
n gypsy, gipsy [ˈdʒipsi]
a member of a race of wandering people.

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Collins English Gem Dictionary

gipsy, gypsy, n.
one of wandering race of Hindu origin, usually living by basket-making,
fortune-telling, etc.; Romany.

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Goodbye hapless harasser.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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j r powell wrote:
"Doctor D" wrote in message
o.uk...
Oh, and don't use the G word - it's racist.
No it isn't http://www.gypsy-traveller.org/

Is too. Try referring to a dictionary, rather than some amateurish
website.

Collins GEM English Dictionary
Gypsy n., pl. -sies. member of a travelling people found throughout
Europe.

There's a long entry in Fowler's MEU which has no suggestion that the
word is 'racist' (whatever that means).

Bill

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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bill Wright
saying something like:

Just to dispel one common myth, when an ambulance leaves service and is
put on the open market the various sirens, horns, and blue flashing
lights are always removed. So tales of people using the 'blues and twos'
to get through a traffic jam are pure fantasy.

Nope. I know of one where it went through the auction still fited with
blues and twos.

I've been involved in the purchase by auction of five 'retired'
ambulances over the years and they all had the blue light and siren
removed, along with the other specialist equipment. One even had the
space-heater removed.

Bill

Order to get out the dictionaries!
 

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"j r powell" wrote in message ...
"Doctor D" wrote in message o.uk...

Oh, and don't use the G word - it's racist.

No it isn't http://www.gypsy-traveller.org/

Is too. Try referring to a dictionary, rather than some amateurish website.

It is rather naff Jamie, did you write it?

Bill Wright's site is far more professional.
http://gypsywaggons.co.uk/rai-billwright.htm


--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

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On 02/12/2010 19:39, Bill Wright wrote:
There's a long entry in Fowler's MEU which has no suggestion that the
word is 'racist' (whatever that means).

Bill

It's in the mind of the listener and the speaker.

I can quote Star Trek:

"Ah,a Beautiful Negress" [Lincoln]
"Why Thank You Sir" [Uhuru]

No insult intended; none taken. Yet in other circumstances to refer to
someone as a negress could be taken to be insulting. And then there's
the group "Niggaz With Attitude". They are hardly insulting themselves.

Andy

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"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
...

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bill Wright
saying something like:

Just to dispel one common myth, when an ambulance leaves service and is
put on the open market the various sirens, horns, and blue flashing
lights are always removed. So tales of people using the 'blues and twos'
to get through a traffic jam are pure fantasy.

Nope. I know of one where it went through the auction still fited with
blues and twos.
Anyway, not exactly beyond the pikey wit to fit Bs &2s, is it? Easily
available off the shelf, and for the past few decades.

Indeed; Bill and Plowfool were talking out of their backsides as usual,
speaking at length and with confidence yet making it up as they went along.

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"j r powell" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowfool" wrote in message ...

Collins GEM English Dictionary
Gypsy n., pl. -sies. member of a travelling people found throughout
Europe.

Hello hapless harasser.

Cambridge Dictionary

gypsy noun
(UK also gipsy) /'d??p.si/ n [C] (also Romany)
a member of a race of people originally from northern India who typically
used to travel from place to place, and now live especially in Europe and
North America
a gypsy caravan/encampment

----

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

gypsy
n gypsy, gipsy ['d?ipsi]
a member of a race of wandering people.

----

Collins English Gem Dictionary

gipsy, gypsy, n.
one of wandering race of Hindu origin, usually living by basket-making,
fortune-telling, etc.; Romany.

That just claims that 'Gypsy' is a race; not that uttering the word
automatically makes one a racist.

--
Max Demian

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The escaped mental patient wrote in message
...

Your research does you credit, but do you *really* expect to get a
rational answer from the little ****?

His idea of discussion is:

1. Forging using other peoples' names and message headers.
2. Cutting and pasting to steal other peoples' work

Aw shucks, and to think, I respect the kind and intelligent people here
*soo* much that I was twying my best to be fwiendly and nice because they
weally, weally deserve it. (Yes nemo-nutjob, that's sarcasm).


3. Call someone a pikey, and then accuse the same person of using
racist language.

This implies "pikey" is a racist term, but "gypsy" isn't. If his biases
permitted it, J G Moron would be searching and selectively pasting lots of
drivel to "prove" otherwise. That's all he's capable of after all.


Best just to let him go and fester.

On the contrary, "Nemo" will be the one festering away - back in his
Broadmoor secure cell - if the authorities have anything to do with it.

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In article ,
j r powell wrote:
"Dave Plowfool" wrote in message ...

Collins GEM English Dictionary
Gypsy n., pl. -sies. member of a travelling people found throughout
Europe.

Hello hapless harasser.

Still paranoid?

Cambridge Dictionary

gypsy noun
(UK also gipsy) /#d##p.si/ n [C] (also Romany)
a member of a race of people originally from northern India who typically
used to travel from place to place, and now live especially in Europe and
North America
a gypsy caravan/encampment

----

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

gypsy
n gypsy, gipsy [#d#ipsi]
a member of a race of wandering people.

----

Collins English Gem Dictionary

gipsy, gypsy, n.
one of wandering race of Hindu origin, usually living by basket-making,
fortune-telling, etc.; Romany.

----

Goodbye hapless harasser.

Thanks for confirming dictionaries don't support your notion that gipsy is
a 'racist' word.

But perhaps you'd ask your therapist why - on a public place like this -
you appear to be so keen on minority rights, but so rude to individuals?
That will take up all of your next session.

--
*Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups *

Dave Plowman London SW
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