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Frank Sinatra circa 1958 The other day I found a clip of a VTuber talking about expanding beyond their typical music taste. In this case they had heard a small snippet of a song by Frank Sinatra somewhere, and decided to check it out. The song? It's Nice To Go Trav'ling from the Come Fly With Album. The clip took a turn that I found a bit surprising. The VTuber stated that they really liked the song… It was basically a silly piece of music, one they even had a thought of covering. Until they heard one verse, a verse that changed everything. Why? Well, as they stated, Frank said a slur word. And he didn't just say it once, he said it three times! Frank Sinatra uttering a slur? In a song? A song on a record from a major recording label? A recording from 1958? I couldn't believe what I was hearing, and I had to understand what has going on. So I looked up the song lyrics, and what I encountered was quite a bit more complicated than I would have initially thought. The lyric in question…

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