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elodieunderglass · 5 months ago

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Time for our regular reminder to people from New England that our native dialect’s charming slang for a small liquor store is a racial slur in the rest of the English speaking world.

Yes I know we don’t mean it that way. Yes I know we have no idea. Yes I know that people from Pakistan hardly ever visit New England let alone settle there, and it is 💯 innocently meant in New England.

It is extraordinarily unfair that the racial connotations of keeping a small corner shop means that it unintentionally doubles the impact of the slur.

It’s wicked uncool but there you go and now you know.

#package stores #New England #I first discovered this in 2010 thankfully just before moving to the UK #when dr glass was like hello you call them what???????#but it’s one of the few New England dialect words that really stick #and with very few immigrants from that region to that region #like if you’re going to emigrate you might as well go somewhere more pleasant without weather that kills you on every season #you can go your whole New England life not knowing #I know it’s innocent and I’m not the boss of slurs but I hope this helps!

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