The Washington Post, July 20th, 2003
Eeew, disgusting! That is the noise made by one faction in the historic division between spitters and non-spitters. Miss Manners apologizes that she is incapable of imitating the noise made by the other faction, even for purposes of academic discussion. After raging for several centuries as an issue dividing nations, cultures, classes and the sexes, the once-ferocious dispute had been calmed. Or so Miss Manners fondly imagined until the SARS epidemic brought it up again. China, one of the few places where the previously pretty-much- universal custom of spitting has continued to be practiced, i...
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