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That's awful. I think that local accents are a great piece of each of our history's; living in the south I hear some really thick dialects which I think are great. NZ'ers are really down to earth, good people on the whole, as are the English etc. I just think it's a bit of an Englishism to call us sheepshaggers on first meeting.

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Agreed Tafia. I don't really take the word itself as a real insult; I just think that it is the idea of it being something that you would say to a completely stranger is a bit off. Maybe it's just the psyche of growing up Welsh, but it is just not my first impulse to pull out an archaeic slur the first time I meet someone from another country. Again this maybe just my personal experience, but this has happened to me on many occasions. I was in a Blockbuster Video once with my little boy in Charleston, and a Cockney that was working there called me a sheepshagger in front of the other customers as I was checking out a dvd with him!!

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Agreed, as I said a couple of my best friends are English, it just surprises me sometimes that there is an assumed comfort level there that some of them feel. I just wouldn't ever think of saying something xenophobic to a complete stranger; granted after you become friends a little cross border ribbing is acceptable during the 6 nations etc.

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..is it just my experience, but does anyone else born in Wales who meets an English person in the States have to go through that awkward moment when they call you a "sheep shagger", then laugh like they were the first person ever to say it, and expect you to take it with a "what yo old boy!"? Just wondering, because a couple of my best friends over here are English; but other English people who I have met randomnly (we have a lot of tourism from the UK down in Charleston, SC) think this is absolutely okay to say to any Welsh person they meet?
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