Beyonce’s lesson in language
WELL done, Beyonce, for removing a word which offended disability campaigners from her new song, Heated. The word is spaz, which can be used to insult people with cerebral palsy. The star says the word was ‘not used intentionally in a harmful manner’ and to be fair, in African-American communities, ‘spaz’ or ‘spazzing’ means ‘go crazy’ or ‘fight’. Another example of how two countries can be separated by a common language.