Congressman apologizes for using racial slur instead of saying 'bugaboo'

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14. When you read the sentence with the context

Around it I could see where bugaboo would possibly fit but the word used does not. What he used doesn't fit the context of the sentence. It could be a word he unfortunately heard growing up and thought it meant something else.
I admittedly thought lesbian was another word for actor until I was 15. It never dawned on me that there was a specific word for women. We get things stuck in our heads, etched in during childhood and they don't go away for a very long time.