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Old 14th Jan 2012, 16:29
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stepwilk
 
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In the U.S., an African-American is referred to as "a spade," by the same people who call Italians wops and Spaniards spicks. We too have spades (shovels) as garden tools and well know that word, which is certainly not peculiar to the English.
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