It wasn't doc - he called them, quite correctly, gypsies. it was someone else who used the other two descriptions of....errr... travelling romany folk.
Gyppos or pikeys in our house usually. I know it isn't politically correct and I should change that but it is what I grew up calling them and would never call it them to their face.
I hereby promise to only ever refer to them as gypsies or travellers! :) lol
Good Grief - hardly the crime of the century given some of the racial 'turds' that get trown around on the AB, especially on AOG's threads......(not accusing AOG directly but his threads do attract some racially rich terms......).