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Posted: 13 January 2005 07:29 PM   [ Ignore ]
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What is the word for a person who judges unfairly/jumps to conclusions?

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Posted: 13 January 2005 08:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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There is the noun bias, and the adjective biased...

But I think maybe you’re looking for the noun bigot...?

One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

I thought this word history was interesting:

Word History: Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person." Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite."

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Posted: 16 January 2005 02:26 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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My suggestion is that Rollo, or Ganger Rolf or Gange Rolv as he is better known in his homeland, depending upon which dialect one speaks, would probably have had an easier time speaking Old Norse than Old English. But then again, during his time, both of these languages were current in England….

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