Laura saw this sign in a shoe shop recently. Clearly the marketing bods at this company are not down with the kids. Who on earth would call their company I-Ming and expect to get taken seriously?!
I’ve just done a little reserch and have found that the company was founded in 1989, well before the term minger was adopted as a slang term by the British youth (1992 according to the Oxford English Dictionary). Although I also found through the OED that the derogatory meaning of the word ming was around as early as the 1920s.
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