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Freightdog wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:08 pm
Big Daikon wrote: Thu Feb 02, 2023 3:02 pm
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…”
Not the meaning I learned for that sentence. Usually a reference to African ancestry. Family tree/woodpile.

I like to use archaic expressions, particularly racial categories. Using the singular form with the definite particle helps a lot.
Yes, 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.
What about WOP in the woodpile?

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