Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | That's funny! I didn't even notice the slip. I read "wasn't" where > | you had written "was". The mind is a wonderful pattern-scanner... > > I also thought "was" perfectly ok... but that is because I have no > idea what "pejorative" means.
pejorative adj. & n. --- adj. (of a word, an expression, etc) depreciatory. --- n. a depreciatory word. French péjoratif, ive. Latin pejorare make worse. -- Angus