question about the word n.i.g.g.e.r.?
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because whatever a nig-ger wants, a nig-ger gets. because if they don't, all they have to do is cry racism, and the gov. give them whatever they want to shut them up. it doesn't matter what the majority wants or what is best for society when it comes to nig-gers. nig-ger feeling a little oppressed today? try crying racism, you'll get your way in no time.
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i.e. stands for the Latin phrase "id est", meaning "that is".  I'm responding to your question, i.e., I'm answering it.
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I have no idea, but it looks like a variation of Signy, an old Germanic name was derived from Sigr (victory) and ny (new). If this is the case, then it would be pronounced with two syllables. Unfortunately a "g" is not always a "g" sound, so it could be pronounced "Siye-ne," but "sig-nee" is probably more likely.
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angry\norgy\nhungry\n\nbut also, less well known but in the Oxford English Dictionary...\n\npuggry\nonegry\nunangry\naggry
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The appeal of this word stems from the fact that it rhymes with 'agonise' (or 'agonize' for American readers).  You are agonising about your bags - so 'baggonise'.\n\nI'm not sure about the linguistic word formation processes - but presumably word association and 'wit'?
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50 bucks to me then\n\nThe -Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than "angry" and "hungry," that ends with the letters "gry." Aside from words derived from "angry" and "hungry," there is no stand-alone word ending in "gry" that is in current usage. Both Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2002, ISBN 0-87779-201-1) and the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-861186-2) contain the phrase "aggry bead." To find a third word ending in "gry" that is not part of a phrase, you must turn to obsolete words or personal or place names. A list of 130 of these is given at the end of this article.\n\nThis puzzle has no good answer, yet it has become the most frequently asked word puzzle. The regular readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles have coined the word "nugry" to describe a (presumably) new reader who posts a frequently asked question.\n\n\nHistory\nMerriam-Webster, publishers of the leading American dictionaries, first heard of this puzzle in a letter dated March 17, 1975, from Patricia Lasker of Brooklyn, New York. Lasker says her Plant Manager heard the question on a quiz show. Since that time Merriam-Webster has received about four letters per year asking the question.\n\nThis puzzle first appears in print in Anita Richterman's "Problem Line" column in Newsday on April 29, 1975. One "M.Z." from Wantagh states that the problem was asked on a TV quiz program. Richterman states that she asked a learned professor of English for help when she first received the inquiry, and he did not respond for over a month. So the quiz show probably occurred in March.\n\nIn Anita Richterman's column on May 9, 1975, several correspondents reported that they had heard the puzzle on the Bob Grant radio talk show on WMCA in New York City. However, as this is not a TV quiz show, this may not be the origin of the puzzle. The majority of readers gave the answer "gry," one of the obsolete words listed at the end of this article. It is unclear whether this was the answer given on the Grant show.\n\nRalph G. Beaman in the "Kickshaws" column in Word Ways for February 1976 reports that the Delaware Valley was mystified during the Fall of 1975 by the question. By this time the puzzle seems to have mutated to a form in which the missing word is an adjective that describes the state of the world.\n\nHowever, some people remember a different version of this puzzle dating it back before 1975. For example, someone named "Rush Elkins" emailed the editors of yourDictionary with this report:\n\nI first heard the "gry" riddle posed in slightly different form in 1969 or 1970. I was then in graduate school at University of Florida and in the habit of meeting with a group of friends every Wednesday evening for dinner, drinks, and conversation. One of those evenings, someone challenged the group to find three common English words containing the letter combination "gry." I'm sure that there was no stipulation on the placement of "gry" because I recall someone suggesting that it might occur at the boundary of a compound word. (That turns out to lead nowhere.) \nA year or two later, I encountered the word "gryphon" in a book, had one of those aha! experiences, and presented my find at the next meeting as a sort of trophy. Although not exactly an everyday sort of word, "gryphon" appears in most dictionaries and is understood by most literate English readers. \nIf these memories are accurate, then perhaps in 1975 a subtle flaw was introduced into an otherwise commonplace word puzzle. Instead of asking for three words that contain "gry," the flawed version asks for three words that end in "gry." Presuma
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a derogatory word becomes offensive only when it is intended to be offensive.  This is why, I believe, "nigger" can be used by african-americans, but not by whites.  This is why my african-american student Antoine could call my white student Grace "my nigger", but Grace would have a more difficult time calling Antoine "my nigger"\nIt's all about context, connotations, and sensitivity (or insensitivity) to feelings.\nThis is also why this program turned the "n" word into a series of asterisks, rather than allowing my original post to go unedited.  The word is too commonly used in an offensive way, so even though I'm not trying to be offensive, it still won't let me use the word.
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It's an acronym.  \n\nGeneral for GS:\n\nGeneral \nUnilateral \nNeuro-Link \nDispersive \nAutomatic \nManeuver\n\nFor the ones created by the Earth forces:\n\nGeneral \nUnilateral \nNeuro-link \nDispersive \nAutonomic \nManeuver system\n\nFor the ones created by ZAFT (nuclear only), it means\n\nGeneration: \nUnsubdued \nNuclear \nDrive/\nAssault \nModule complex\n\nGeneral for GSD:\n\nGeneration \nUnrestricted \nNetwork\nDrive \nAssault \nModule \n\nFor the Destroy Gundam in GSD:\n\nGigantic \nUnilateral \nNeumerous \nDominating \nAMmunition \n\nFor the Impulse and Destiny in GSD:\n\nGunnery \nUnited \nNuclear \nDeutrion \nAdvanced \nManeuver
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I applaud you for finally trying to replace the vulgar word, and with the right media, like yahoo, it could reach many in some time, but you have to be patient. On account of kids today and they're love for the N word, they will try to protect it, because Bushaka is not 'cool' yet, but you made a wise decision on spreading it in "Riker's" because most 'street/gangsta' trends came from there, so it could catch fire and blow up soon. And don't be put off, by the man who answered above me, unlike him, I read the whole article and I know that Bushaka is inclusive which means anyone can use it it actually unites better than any other word. BUSHAKA, lol
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The word you are referring to was a place people were from. Thats how at that time they were labeled, by where they had been taken from. It didn't originate with 2 G's but one as in Niger. But over time thats how all african americans became reffered to. In all honesty, it might not mean as much as it does had it not been used the way it was. But because it was said with such hate and disgust it became a new curse word. And I think the reason that african americans can use to word on each other without being offended is this. Not all of us are like them and we can't say that we know how it is to be them. So for someone of a different race to say it to them is to be discriminated against.
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Have a look:\nhttp://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=SRNIGTIAFEAR
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"Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".\nThere are three words in the English language. What is the\nthird word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it\nevery day. Look closely and I have already given you the\nthird word. What is it?\n\nAnswer: "language".
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You're telling it wrong. This is how it should go.\n\n"Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is." \n \nAnd the answer is Language. "The English Language."
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there is a lot of history behind the n-word. It was originally used to hurt black people, and to make them feel inferior however, some black people have taken it and flipped the meaning in an effort to give it a pos. connotation, like how women sometimes refer to each other as hoes, b*****s, etc. but if you'd like more info on the topic read "N*i*g*g*e*r: the strange career of a troublesome word" by Randall Kennedy.
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g s l e p a g\n\ngap\ngaps\ngape\ngapes\npal\npale\npal\npales\nsap\nlap\nlaps\npeal\npeals\npeg\npegs\npage\npages\nasp\ngasp\nlag\nleg\nlags\nlegs\nslag\npea\npeas\nslap\nage\nages\na\nas\npa\npas\ngel\ngels\nale\nales\nsale\nseal\nape\napes\nsag\ngas\ngal\ngals\ngag\ngags\ngale\ngales
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Negro means black.\nNig_ger comes from negro - but it was used in a very hateful way during the slave times. Even now racists use it to put down someone because they are black. It means much more than just black - it means "stupid, ugly, bad, etc.." so if someone says nig_ger to a black person, they just insulted them.\n\nNow - the blacks co-opted this term and started using it amongst themselves, so it would not hurt so much. In modern times, it became Nig_ga. However, even though they use it among themselves (because they know one black guy doesn't mean all the insults behind it when he calls another black guy nig_ga), they don't like it if another group calls them that - coz they can't be sure if it's friendly or a racist insult.
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dr shorty, VA Girl and Nancy Kay are on the right track.\n\nWhat happens is this:  when you shorten "refrigerator" to the one-syllable "fridge" you move the "g" from the beginning of a syllable (re-fri-ger...) to the END of one.\n\nIn English, g is often "soft" (sounding  like "j") at the beginning of a syllable, before e, i or y (germ, "giraffe, gyrate).  \n\nBut at the END of a syllable/word it doesn't quite work that way.  G all by itself at the end is always treated as "hard" --as in rig, bag...\n\nOR when you DO find a "soft g" sound closing a word it is followed by e, AND the preceding vowel is LONG.   For example:  age, page, etc.\n\nSo, by English spelling conventions, "frig" would rhyme with "rig" and "frige" would rhyme with "OBLIGE" \n\nThe way English usually solves this problem -- when there is a g at the end of a syllable/word after a SHORT vowel, you write in the "d" --to represent a sound which is already actually part of the 'soft g sound'.    There are many examples of this:  badge, ridge, ledge, lodge, budge\n\n(If the adding of a D seems odd, notice that j/soft g is actually not one sound, but a combination of two:  d + 'zh';  a related sound, only not using the voice is the combination t + sh, which we commonly represent with "ch".  'zh', if it looks odd, is simply the "voiced" version of "sh". It is the sound made by the Z in "azure")\n\nActually, I believe the REAL problem here stems from the different ORIGINS of two sets of words.  The words ending with "-dge" are generally of Old English lineage, whereas the final (-ge) are from Latin, mostly through French.  So although "refrigerator" comes from a Latin word, "fridge" accomodates itself to the common pattern used for the 'original English' forms.\n\n----------------\n\nA little overkill (sorry!)\n\nThe "rules" above seem to work pretty well when the syllable we're considering is ACCENTED.  When it loses the accent, things may seem more confusing.  \n\nThus there are, in fact, -age words in which the "a" is not long.   But neither is it an accented short vowel (as in "badge")!  Instead, the vowel has ended up in an UN-accented syllable where it is scarcely pronounced at all.   Example:  garbage, adage, manage, pillage.  (Not surprisingly, these are largely words borrowed from Latin, mostly through French into Middle English.)\n\nThen there is "garage".  Of course, English speakers can't even agree on how to pronounce it!  Dialects differ on the vowel sound, on which syllable to accent, and often on whether the final g is a "j" or "zh" sound .  (In this case I prefer the "zh" as befits its French origin.)