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Tag Archives: mean nicknames
Derogatory place nicknames – UPDATE #6
Last weekend (originally published in 2013) a derogatory nickname was overheard for a city here in Michigan that I had never heard expressed before in my 21 (now 26) years of being a resident of this state. For some reason … Continue reading
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Tagged derogatory nicknames, mean nicknames, negative nicknames, place names
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