Correct to call 'em DIKES?

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tomg wrote:
> 
> > Is it politically correct to call diagonal cutters "DIKES"
> > anymore?  I've been doing it for years, but if it's going to
> > lose me some business I better start changing my ways.
> >
> > Robert
> 
> I guess you could call 'em "Nips". That might offend all women .... but you
> can still order nippers. I haven't seen a pair of dikes for sell in years
> and that's ok. I would much rather have my hands on nips than dikes
> anyway....:-) If you can buy dikes you can call 'em dikes!
> -tg


Nips is no good, either.  That's a fairly common racist slur used
against Japanese people.  It's a shortened form of Nippon.

It's a shame that bigots are so creative- it looks like they're 
grabbing words as fast as we can make them up.  You'd think they 
could find something more exciting to do than just sitting around,
trying to think of new ways to pollute the English language.


Out of the frying pan, into the fire...
Don