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Message: [QUOTE="MaxwellCuse, post: 282198, member: 1240"] My family moved from New Jersey to Syracuse in 1966. The kids in the neighborhood were very clear, when introducing me to their preferred pronunciation of the word coney, of the racial insult that lay behind it. That was then. It may well be that later generations have called Hofman's coneys "cooneys" without the slightest hint that the word once had a derogatory meaning. That it does not have a negative connotation to many posters is fine. For me it always will, which is why I call them "coneys." [/QUOTE]