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Originally Posted by Super Nintendo Chalmers
I play hockey with a bunch of transplanted Quebecers. Most of them wear Habs colours and they all refer to the Canadiens as the Habs. Nothing has ever happened to indicate to me that habitants might be an insult. Not that I doubt you. It's just never come up and it never occurred to me.
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For sure, people know that habs refers to "habitants" in the case of the Montreal Canadiens...but it can also be used as an insult. If you used it as an insult towards a Quebecer it would sort of be the equivalent to someone calling us a hick or redneck because we're Western Canadians. Probably never comes up, true.