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What about WOP in the woodpile?Freightdog wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:08 pmYes, it’s usage was slightly looser and broader than its origins. In part, that is the problem. The origins were clearly prejudiced, but it’s usage not always so; certainly not in later years when origins have long been forgotten but the phrase has become part of colloquial speech.Big Daikon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:02 pmNot the meaning I learned for that sentence. Usually a reference to African ancestry. Family tree/woodpile.Freightdog wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:54 pm
A particularly difficult engineering project kept throwing up problems that had been completely unforeseen.
In a technical meeting, discussing one such problem, he said-
“The nigger in the woodpile…”
I like to use archaic expressions, particularly racial categories. Using the singular form with the definite particle helps a lot.
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