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Re: OT: terms for people with different hair colours

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 4:48
--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:

> > Also (American English): > [...] > > red head - carrot top, copper top, ginger kid > > How common are the variants of 'ginger' in American English? I had never > heard them until South Park did an episode on ginger kids a few years > ago, and since then I've noticed they're used fairly commonly in British > comedy shows.
I'm not sure. My granddaughter is a teen redhead, and I hear the term a lot around her friends. I simply assumed it was widely distributed. I may be completely wrong about that. --gary