RE: Pet Peeve
November 4, 2012 at 11:20 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2012 at 12:21 pm by Tiberius.)
"dumb" isn't outdated slang; it's an outdated term for "mute", but the word is still in wide usage. More than that, I doubt many people say "deaf and mute"; most say "deaf and dumb".