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Originally posted by RATBOY
To be honest I have a problem with the word "gyped." It refers to gypsies. You're chances of truly offending a real gypsy is near to nil, but people should at least know what they are saying when they use the word. Not a big deal to me, but whatever.
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Gypsies was a term first used in England to describe a group of peoples that wandered from India, through Eastern Europe and ended up throughout Europe. They were mistakenly beleived to be from Egypt....egypts.....gyps.....gypsies.
so is it offensive to Egyptians, Indians, or that group that wandered Europe, or all three?