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Your RBR Word of the Day: pejorative

pejorative \pih-JOR-uh-tiv\, adjective:

1. Tending to make or become worse.
2. Tending to disparage or belittle.

noun:
1. A belittling or disparaging word or expression.

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Though "bammer" is typically thrown about by our rivals as a pejorative term, presumably to mock our supposed lack of good diction and/or enunciation, they're the only ones I've ever heard actually pronounce "Alabama" with an "r" in everyday conversation.