Didn’t start with businessmen, unless you mean businessmen visiting Martha’s Vinyard in the off-season. I don’t know if lager louts, wide boys, chavs, spides, neds, and scally lads ever wore them. I hope none of those things are ethnic slurs.
They’re not ethnic slurs.
I guess we should call them class slurs.
I’m pretty sure some of them are class slurs, if you want to get down to nitty gritty.
Didn’t start with businessmen, unless you mean businessmen visiting Martha’s Vinyard in the off-season. I don’t know if lager louts, wide boys, chavs, spides, neds, and scally lads ever wore them. I hope none of those things are ethnic slurs.
They’re not ethnic slurs.
I guess we should call them class slurs.
I’m pretty sure some of them are class slurs, if you want to get down to nitty gritty.