Spic

Spic (also known as spick) is an ethnic slur used in the United States for a person of Hispanic background.

Etymology

Some in the United States believe that the word is a play on their pronunciation of the English "speak." The Oxford English Dictionary takes spic to be a contraction of the earlier form spiggoty. The oldest known use of "spiggoty" is in 1910 by Wilbur Lawton in Boy Aviators in Nicaragua, or, In League with the Insurgents. Stuart Berg Flexner, in I hear America Talking (1976), favored the explanation that it derives from "no spik Ingles" (or "no spika de Ingles"). These theories follow standard naming practices, which include attacking people according to the foods they eat (see Kraut and Frog) and for their failure to speak a language (see Barbarian and Gringo).

References

Spic (disambiguation)

Spic is an ethnic slur for a person of Latino/Hispanic descent.

Spic, spik or Špik may also refer to:

  • SPIC (Indian company), an Indian petrochemicals company
  • State Power Investment Corporation, Chinese nuclear giant formed by the merger of SNPTC and China Power Investment Corporation.
  • Špik, a mountain in Slovenia
  • Luka Špik (born 1979), a Slovenian rower and Olympic gold medalist
  • SPIC MACAY, the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth
  • Spic and Span, a major U.S. brand of all-purpose household cleanser
  • Grind og spik, a typical dish of the Faroe Islands consisting of pilot whale meat and blubber
  • See also

  • Lee Spick, an English snooker player
  • SPIC (Indian company)

    Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation Ltd, or SPIC, (BSE: 590030, NSE: SPIC) is an Indian company that makes petrochemicals. Its core competency is in fertiliser products. It has operations in power, oil and natural gas, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology applications in agriculture.

    The company, headquartered in Chennai, was incorporated on 18 December 1969 and became a joint venture between the M. A. Chidambaram Group and TIDCO (a part of the Government of Tamil Nadu) in 1975. The government sold its stake in 1992. The company's biggest client has been the government of Tamil Nadu, which purchases agro-products for subsidised distribution through its Public Distribution System. The company has been in poor financial health since about 2002. Its 2006 sales amounted to 2,200 crore, with a net operating loss of 180 crore.

    SPIC has four business lines:

  • the fertiliser division,
  • the pharmaceuticals division which manufactures Penicillin-G Potassium (fermentation-based), and active pharmaceutical ingredients,
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Astro Girl

    by: Spock

    She was a beauty queen with the future in her hand
    Full of dreams and a ticket to wonderland
    Young and innocent ready for action
    Trying anything for some satisfaction
    But she fell deeper and deeper without success
    Met the wrong guys and got stuck in a mess
    So now she works at a sleazy place
    In a red light quadrant of space
    Astro girl
    Why don't you leave this world
    I've been watching her for awhile
    Those tender eyes and her beautiful smile
    The way she serves the drinks and acts polite
    And then disappears when the price is right
    I can see that there is something wrong
    It's very obvious that she doesn't belong
    I wish there was something I could to
    To help her start something new
    Astro girl




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