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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.
On Sunday, 11 July 1993, John McLaughlin, in signing off his television program, The McLaughlin Group, apologized for having used the word welsh in the sense, “cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt; go back on one's word” [ RHD Unabridged ] in an earlier program.
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.”
On the other hand, I do not have the hard evidence at hand and assume that the RHD does.
In one interval checked, W reveals Montague (Romeo's family name), Montmorency (a kind of cherry), Montrachet (wine), monuron (a herbicide), moon-eye (a fish), moon-eyed (open-eyed), and moonflower , as headwords not in L ; the same interval in L reveals montbretia (a plant), Montessorian (teaching method), month of Sundays , Montilla , -mony (suffix) Moog synthesizer , moon daisy (the oxeye), moon-faced , moonglow , and moonrat , which do not appear in W . Leaving aside the plants and animals, which are differently distributed for American and British users, the only significant omission from L is Montrachet , while the important words omitted from W are Montessorian , month of Sundays , -mony , Moog synthesizer , moon-faced , and moonglow . The last word is not in the RHD II , but it should be, for the L citation is from Henry Miller and the word also appears in the lyrics written for the popularized rendition of Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony.
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