Julia Thompson wrote: > Ronn Blankenship wrote: >>> 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".
We're not going to restart the thread "chix and niggards" again, are we? :-) Regards, Ray. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
