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[blackbelt2003]

(09-14-2021 07:13 AM)salvador Wrote:  Hey Black and Lloyd, I just heard an expression I hadn't heard in decades: "don't welch on a bet"

When I was a kid, getting "Japped" and "Jewed" were common expressions that are obviously unacceptable today.

I'm not sure there's enough people in America who could even tell you what Welsh people are for that expression to have died for racial reasons.

Another expression in America that's gone is: "get your cotton-pickin' hands off me." That expression was so commonplace that I don't think anyone ever equated it with black hands until they did.

Do Brits in general feel that "welching" on a bet is an antiquated expression that would be totally racist and unacceptable in public? Or is it more of a situation where everyone just understands that the Welsh are simply untrustworthy with money?

To be honest I haven't heard the term for a long time. I don't think many people assume it to be offensive, it's just a slightly out-of-date phrase.

I kind of remember a Lord getting negative coverage in Parliament for using the term a few years ago, and I think that was the first time I'd discovered it was associated with the Welsh.




Black