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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
In our household the term 'mong' meant mongrel...and it was used if any of us were displaying feral habits, or bad manners......or sometimes if we were sitting around doing nothing...because that is what mongels do...they sit by the fire and toast their belly.
I have no recollection of using the term 'spastic' or 'spas' in a derogatory manner at school(or anywhere else for that matter).
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Mong is also short for mongoloid. Ricky Gervais was in a spot of bother a while back for using the term. He was using it in the context of a spastic or retarded person. The word spas, pronounced spaz, was frequently used at my school, which was all boys. Spas is a shortening of spastic. It was used as an insult.