Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> At 02:16 PM 9/22/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >At 22:29 21-09-2002 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
> >>
> >>You call denigrating me just because I'm not Dutch "improving the
> >>environment of the list"???
> >
> >The word "denigrating" has such a negative ring to it
>
> People in the US have been fired from their jobs for using it properly
> because others who obviously did not know what the word means took offense
> because they thought it was related to that notorious word which begins
> with the letter "N" . . .
I hadn't heard about *that* one. The only one I knew about was
"niggardly".
Julia
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