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Jap is an English abbreviation of the word โJapaneseโ. In some places, it is simply a contraction of the word and does not carry negative connotations, whereas in some other contexts it can be considered a slur.In the United States, some Japanese Americans have come to find the term offensive because of the internment they had suffered during World War II. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jap was not considered primarily offensive. However, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Japanese declaration of war on the US, the term began to be used derogatorily, as anti-Japanese sentiment increased. During the war, signs using the epithet, with messages such as โNo Japs Allowedโ, were hung in some businesses, with service denied to customers of Japanese descent. eng to japAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, Jap as an abbreviation for Japanese was in colloquial use in London around 1880. An example of benign usage was the previous naming of Boondocks Road in Jefferson County, Texas, originally named Jap Road when it was built in 1905 to honor a popular local rice farmer from Japan.Later popularized during World War II to describe those of Japanese descent, Jap was then commonly used in newspaper headlines to refer to the Japanese and . Jap began to be used in a derogatory fashion during the war, more so than Nip. Veteran and author Paul Fussell explains the rhetorical usefulness of the word during the war for creating effective propaganda by saying that Japs โwas a brisk monosyllable handy for slogans like ‘Rap the Jap’ or ‘Let’s Blast the Jap Clean Off the Map’โ. Some in the United States Marine Corps tried to combine the word Japs eng to jap with apes to create a new description, , for the Japanese; this neologism never became popular.In the United States, the term has now been considered derogatory; the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary notes it is โdisparagingโ. A snack food company in Chicago named Japps Foods (for the company founder) changed their name and eponymous potato chip brand to Jays Foods shortly after the Attack on Pearl Harbor to avoid any negative associations with Japan.Spiro Agnew was criticized in the media โฆโฆ
