TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Last Laugh! Telecom New Zealand Tells Woman Her Name is Gay

Re: Last Laugh! Telecom New Zealand Tells Woman Her Name is Gay

Henry (henry999@eircom.net)
Wed, 9 May 2007 07:14:52 +0300

Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:

>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Like the time I used the word
>> 'niggardly' in this Digest and was promptly scolded for using racist
>> language. (That is an /a/ as the fifth letter from the left and not
>> an /e/) PAT]

> [but Pat, it's the same root word ;-) ]

Bzzzt. Not even close.

The following link

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mniggard.html

gives a good explanation and even provides full details of the
Washington, D.C. example I half-remembered the other day.

cheers,

Henry

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