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Speech codes for Santa Claus? Down in Sydney, Australia, a firm that trains and supplies department-store Santas has instructed trainees that the traditional "Ho! Ho! Ho!" could be "derogatory to women.".(The Week ...)(Brief article)

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Speech codes for Santa Claus? Down in Sydney, Australia, a firm that trains and supplies department-store Santas has instructed trainees that the traditional "Ho! Ho! Ho!" could be "derogatory to women." Aspiring Santas, says the firm, should greet kiddies with a more sensitive "Ha! Ha! Ha!" Setting aside our dismay at learning that the foul hip-hop contagion has spread as far as the ...

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