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					Originally Posted by  HarryT
					 
				 
				In the 1920s it was acceptable (in Britain) to refer to a person of Mediterranean appearance as a "dago"; by the 1960s it was not. 
			
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 Really? Half an hour on any high street in Britain will let you hear much worse than "dago" every day.