Portlands “ Curse of the ****** Portland has many old island manners, but few are as quietly powerful as the way we talk about the R word. You can say bunny without blinking. You can say long ears. You can even say underground mutton. But the R word is the one people still sidestep, and it is not just for laughs. It seems the taboo was born from quarry life, where burrows meant hollows, and hollows meant danger. In a landscape worked and weakened by cutting stone, anything that hinted the ground