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Language

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

Now we tiptoe carefully into the area of the derogatory and offensive – those being the words used by the Oxford to label ‘wog’. So please understand that I am not using this word – I am referring to it (in order to explain it). It’s first recorded by the Oxford from 1921 meaning ‘a non-white person.’

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