Is it ever acceptable to say the ‘n-word’? As you will have immediately inferred by that sentence, it’s rare to see it even spelt out in full today. It’s perhaps the only word in the English language you will never see written without asterisks in a newspaper or magazine. It is, to use that phrase once beloved of the Guardian , ‘the last taboo’.

‘Words have context, and the word “bitch” can have a positive meaning if you look at the Oxford English Dictionary,’ it was reported that Pormann told the meeting

Peter Pormann, a professor at Manchester University, was this week reminded the hard way of its undiminished power, when he was banned from campus and described as a ‘potential risk to colleagues’ for having allegedly used the word in a disciplinary meeting. The university is investig

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