‘Squaw’ = ‘racist’

31st August 2001, 1:00am

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‘Squaw’ = ‘racist’

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Your editorial on geometry, “Lost squaw route”, was not only unfunny but racist. My dictionary (Collins, 1992) categorises “squaw” as “offensive”. What next, jokes using “nigger”?

Richard Hale 2 Kinsgwood Avenue London, NW6

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