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Simone Mendez Simone Mendez is a creative writing graduate currently living in Birmingham. But where does the word come from and how offensive is it? It's a word very rarely heard on television. Are they out of the way yet?
Brundle isn't the first media figure to be condemned for using the word, which is considered insulting by the traveller community.
Later that century it meant a "turnpike traveller" or vagabond. But in more recent years it has become a term of abuse and in the eyes of the law using it can even be deemed a racist offence, given its association with Irish travellers and Roma Gypsies.
In December, at Lewes Magistrates' Court, Lee Coleman, 28, admitted using racially-aggravated threatening words and behaviour after a row with a nightclub manageress. He had told her: "I'm not paying you, pikey. ITV has apologised for Brundle's comments It didn't make the early editions of the OED at the start of the 20th Century, which probably means it did not have any literary or newspapers sources at the time, although it was used.
However "piker" did get into the first edition, which meant much the same thing. In , Peter Wildeblood, a champion of gay rights whose campaigning later helped decriminalise homosexuality, used the word as a badge of pride: "My family's all pikeys, but we ain't on the road no more.
They are sure it is an insulting term. This is the language of social discrimination and it's quite shocking that this language is now being bandied about Slang expert Tony Thorne There is no word more offensive to a traveller, says Cliff Codona, a Roma Gypsy and chairman of the National Travellers Action Group. It's fantastic what he's doing for the reputation of the country, absolutely outstanding.
Slang expert Tony Thorne says "pikey" was being used as far back as the 16th Century but has only become more offensive in the mainstream in the past four or five years. It's used pejoratively as someone who is sub-proletariat like 'gypsy' or 'gyppo' was used in the s and 50s. Social prejudice Brundle probably thinks he can still use the word "pikey" in that innocent way, but his attitude is naive, says Thorne, because it has become an insult and no-one would accept it as a description of themselves.
When used now in urban circles, it usually means a person is beyond the class system, someone without an identity who doesn't matter, and is off the social radar, Thorne suggests. Only in the villages is it likely to have retained its ethnic association with the traveller or gypsy community. Is "posh-bashing" just as bad? Thorne detects its increased use as reflecting a period in which, post-political correctness, social prejudice is now more acceptable.
It started with 'chav' and then the 'posh' stuff about David Cameron and Boris Johnson. But not everyone believes the word is quite so politically charged.
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