But this development is corroborated by other sources, such as the linguistics blog Language Log (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005321.html) (which may well be kcatalyst's original source, if she didn't hear about it on the American Dialect Society Mailing List first).
I'm not sure "slur" is the right term because, as I understand it, it's not used directly to blacks, only in reference to them. That is, bigots wouldn't scream "CANADIANS!" at blacks on the street, but one bigot would say to another, "Ya see those fuckin' Canadians?"
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I'm not sure "slur" is the right term because, as I understand it, it's not used directly to blacks, only in reference to them. That is, bigots wouldn't scream "CANADIANS!" at blacks on the street, but one bigot would say to another, "Ya see those fuckin' Canadians?"