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The term taboo in linguistics means, simply, `proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable' [RHD2] , but Jay prefers the narrow, somewhat archaic, anthropologist's definition that focuses on “supernatural” and “ritualistic” interdiction.
[from the 1984 College Edition of the RHD ] are “still fully operative or whether the first, limited meaning [`an adult male person, as distinguished from a boy or woman.
Turning to the illustrations (including the black-and-white maps) in the RHD2e , it must be said that the originals were a model of clarity and detail: I know, for as Managing Editor, it was among my responsibilities to commission them and to accept or reject completed artwork or to have it modified.
Then, at about the same time when colored was anathematized (despite the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has still not changed its name), black was legislated by that community of speakers to supplant Negro and colored, though I cannot recall any riders requiring a capital B . ( Cape Colored —or, more properly, Coloured —is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.”
; that's what my RHD has.