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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
I have an engineer working for me who is from Newfoundland. I asked him about the term, and he said that it was an insult, but nowhere NEAR the "n" word. He likened it to calling Southern people "rednecks", but when he read the responses here by a couple of folks, he said, "They are flying off the handle. They're making way more of this than a French person would".
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That's rather amusing.
Newfoundland and labrador has a total population of over 500,000, and a French population that is under 2000. That's less than .5% French. Why don't you ask your expert if he has ever actually met a French person.
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