Originally Posted by
Alan
For many of us, I think it might be like the old baloney/bologna dilemma. In my little slice of the world, I eat baloney, even though some manufacturers insist on printing bologna on the package. It would drive me crazy to think they were being insensitive to my upbringing, my dialect or my preferences, that's why I don't.
As far as fabulous goes, when I last took a vocabulary course in the 60's, to my knowledge no group had appropriated the word, so using it in it's proper context wasn't grounds for complaint. But, we were a lot less sensitive then.