re: The definitive list of banned words at Liverpool

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Yid
Pikey
Wog
Nip

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Yid is probably for Jews, like "yiddish"
Not sure on pikey or wog.
And nip has at least been around since WWII for Japanese people.

ETA: after looking it up.

Pikey = travelers (like gypsys)
Wog =

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slang word in the idiom of British and Australian English employed as an ethnic or racial slur. Considered derogatory and offensive, it is often applied in reference to dark-skinned or olive-skinned person from Africa or Asia. It can be applied to any darker-skinned people, but is used generally to refer to peoples of the East Indies and India, as well as immigrants or migrant workers from the Middle-East and the Mediterranean.

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