Polack not polite

Of uncertain origins, the word may originally have derived from the ethnic slur polack.

So the polack tries it.

Avern was patient with his ethnic hitters, his guinea and his polack.

The Polack- presumably a Pole; mutinies with Hansen; killed during his attack on the Valley.

He was, however, rapped for calling Robert Kubica a "polack" on air in May 2010 at the Monaco Grand Prix.

In a piece, entitled "Two waves of immigration, Poles apart" Coren used the racial slur 'Polack' to describe Polish immigrants who can "clear off".

On July 26, 2008, columnist Giles Coren had a comment piece published there with the ethnic slur 'Polack' used to describe Polish immigrants.

In other languages this is the neutral word for Polish or a Pole (e.g. Swedish polack, Italian polacco, Portuguese and Spanish polaco).

Avern, drinking martinis, had told him about these two, his guinea and his polack; and Montez, drinking R@emy and doing lines, had told him their names.

It centers on a group of reporters in a bar, shortly after humans have made first contact with Martians, who are passing the time by retelling 'dumb Polack' jokes as 'dumb Martian' jokes.

Coren used the racial slur 'Polack' to describe Polish immigrants in the UK, arguing that "if England is not the land of milk and honey it appeared to them three or four years ago, then, frankly, they can clear off out of it".

Folklorist Mac E. Barrick observed that TV comedians were reluctant to tell ethnic jokes until Spiro Agnew's "polack jokes" in 1968, pointing to an early Polish joke told by comedian Bob Hope in 1968, referencing politicians.

During a lull in the proceedings of Day 3 of the 2010 NFL Draft, Matt Millen and colleague Ron Jaworski were into a conversation about fried bologna sandwiches, at which point Millen said, "Ask any polack from Buffalo how they like them, right Jaws?"