The final vote was a slam dunk:

The city council has said n-o to the N-word, unanimously approving a resolution yesterday calling for a moratorium on the rap world’s favorite epithet.

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The resolution is not a ban, and it has no enforcement teeth except the power of moral persuasion. So its chief sponsor, Councilman Leroy Comrie (D-Queens), who is black, said he was surprised at the widespread attention the resolution attracted.

“It has stirred what it was intended to — discussion,” Comrie said.

The 51-member Council, which has a 25-member Black, Latino and Asian Caucus — was united in its enthusiasm for the measure.

Councilman John Liu (D-Queens), the sole Asian on the Council, called the the N-word “the vilest word in the English language.”

Can there really be a vilest word?