I thought that but i remember someone pleading guilty to using " racially aggravated threatening words " at lewes crown court . He apparently called a nightclub manageress a pikey
Holly- boxtops has mentioned that you don't need to start a new thread each time. You can just post comments like this by replying to the original question
presume you cant say diddiki either then ? I have used these words all my life, not in anger and not to insult simply because it described the person/situation.
I don't think that's used often enough to make it a useful insult (diddiki, I mean). But you might like to ask oneof them how they feel about teh word being used to descibe them. After all "dark!e" describes a person but it's still offensive.