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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally depends on the context. If it's said seriously or with a certain tone, absolutely.

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I have no idea what you mean. Offensive when said seriously or with a certain tone? What tone?

Welshing on a deal - offensive. Saying Chop chop to mean hurry, why would this be offensive?[/quote]

I just looked up "welsh" and it's not anti-welsh.  It refers to a practice common in 18th century England where englishman would run off to wales to avoid debts (especially bookies that wanted to avoid paying on bets).  So it didn't suggest that the welsh were unreliable--it just suggested that wales was a good place to hide from creditors.  Which was probably true then, and maybe still is true now.  [/quote]

It is generally considered offensive now.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/72806/are-the-terms-welsh-or-welch-as-in-reneging-on-a-bet-derogatory-toward-the[/quote]

Only by the people who have an apoplexy if you use the word niggardly.  [/quote]

Um .. the original usage of "welsh" the verb implies people who live in Wales, or at least some subset of them, are debtors who ran away to hide from their creditors.  How is that not derogatory towards people who live in Wales aka Welsh people?

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You go first -- how is it derogatory?  If I make a bet with my kid, he loses but doesn't pay up, and I say he welshed on the bet, how is that derogatory?  Seems to me like an accurate historical reference.  Oh, wait, is historical offensive too?[/quote]

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