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The word niggardly has no etymological tie to the N-word, despite public controversies arising from the confusion.
The short answer: in practice some Black people and segments of culture treat "" as a reclaimed, intra-group term distinct in meaning and function from the slur "nigger," but many individuals and inst...
The slur commonly called the traces linguistically to the niger “black,” passing through / negro into forms by the 16th century, but its social meaning shifted dramatically over centuries from a neutr...