Examples
“But I can say this, that it may have came from the Latin word ''niger'' for the color black.”
Boondocks: Dr. King Would Blast Niggers, Relocate to Canada.
“In the book "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" by Randall Kennedy, the Harvard Law professor writes that the word is derived from the Latin word "niger" and the Spanish word”
“Do you think you'll get in trouble for having the word niger on your web site?”
“Do you think you'll get in trouble for having the word niger on your web site?”
“REVEREND JESSE JACKSON: You used the word niger and then the lynching scene have you been here before?”
“Going from that to the excessive use of profanity, repretish use of the word niger, and idea about some body lynching from a tree, that's pretty pathologic, pretty sick.”
“In fact, Wikipedia suggests that it is 'a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, meaning "black"', but that's a technicality.”
“Suppose, that two tribes used the same written characters, but attached different and opposite meanings to them, so that 'niger', for instance, was used by one tribe to convey the notion 'black', by the other, 'white'; -- could they, without absurdity, be said to have the same language?”
“‘Josef Lemper’ – the Helleborus niger hybrid I posted about last month – is still in full flower.”
“The bully tactics usually used in these niger scams, reflect their own awful society of course.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘niger’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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Algeria
Words about Algeria, etc.
al-jumhuriya al-j..., spain, morocco, mali, niger, algiers, oran, laghouat, constantine, touggourt, ghardaia, ouargla and 103 more...
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•Unexpected Pronunciation, Now! with ...
Inspired to publicity by the conversation at segway. Thanks, pals!
boatswain, clapboard, waistcoat, victuals, forecastle, solder, colonel, ensign, worcestershire sauce, creatinine, coelacanth, banal and 79 more...
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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third rock from the sun
tectonic, magma, greenhouse, egypt, canada, united states, mexico, costa rica, greenland, iceland, luxembourg, ecuador and 89 more...
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the dyer
Colours (especially the exotic), and gemstones if relevant.
Also see the Dye Box.mauve, vermillion, cinnabar, ultramarine, viridian, alizarine, indigo, fuchsia, titian, garnet, chartreuse, navy and 75 more...
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TOUR DU MONDE EN 90 JOURS
christchurch, reno, fond du lac, mulhouse, mexico, côte d'ivoire, sarajevo, kosovo, constantine, calcutta, fort laramie, pembroke and 55 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for niger.
sakhalinskii Actually, Niger doesn't rhyme with tiger. It is pronounced 'nee-jair'. Nov 9, 2008
bilby The tiger is not native to Africa. Fortunately, though, they have a country to rhyme with it, ie. Niger *blushes* Apr 9, 2008
uselessness Not unless I can make a semi-offensive pun with it. Feb 21, 2007
reesetee Uh...no, I don't have that map on me, unfortunately. But I'm fairly certain that the name for this type/treatment of leather derived from the country of the same name. Another type is morocco, which I'm sure I'll see a map for at some point. ;-) Feb 21, 2007
chained_bear But it's also listed here as a soft goatskin, not just as a country (which would have a capital N at any rate). So... do we have a map of a soft goatskin? .... Anyone? .... Bueller? Feb 20, 2007
reesetee Thanks, mouss. I think I got it. Feb 20, 2007
mouss Hello guys here is more informations about the country niger
http://www.niger1.com/aboutniger.html
YOU CAN CONTACT ME AT niger1.com@gmail.com if you need more informations about Niger Feb 20, 2007
reesetee Yup, that's the place, all right. Thanks for the visual. Feb 20, 2007
uselessness
Feb 20, 2007
reesetee In rare/antique bookbinding, a soft goatskin with no pronounced grain Feb 20, 2007