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.

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