# A bar bet I would have lost - Did Fred Sanford ever say the N -word on "Sanford & Son"?

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**Enright3**

Was that a joke?

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> [@gytalf2000](#):
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> I was born in 1960, and have lived in Nashville, TN area all my life. None of my friends ever used the word. I would hear people say the word on occasion, but they would almost always immediately be admonished that is was seriously uncool to talk like that.

Wow, these accounts are surprising to me. Born in 1965 in Queens, NY, and the word was commonly used by every one in my neighborhood.

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