I grew up in Oklahoma in the 1950s. N****r Baby candies were one of my favorite treats. They were made by Necco, one of the biggest candy manufacturers. My father (who was of mixed race) used to joke that this candy was made by “Niggo.”
Then there was the time Niger Innis appeared on CNN.
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There are several species of fish known as “niggerfish”; I don’t know why.
I grew up in Boston, and Necco (New England Candy Company) is huge there. I remember those little candies fondly.
I swear they must have gone away because of the name. I honestly had no other name for them.
This makes sense in the same way that calling rapeseed oil canola oil makes sense.
See “The Farmer’s Dayvorce” at
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976835098
“Spelling Bee” (NSFW unless you have headphones)
When I was little, I thought that “chigger” was the LOL-iest word ever. I don’t know why; maybe it’s because I thought the word was onomatopaeic, as in, that’s what the little guys do once you get them, they go “chig-chig-chig” on (and in) your skin. Even thinking about it now, I’m tee-heeing a little bit
FWIW, “chigger” apparently **doesn’t ** have any racist roots, but is a corruption of the word "chigoe ", the name of a flea native to the tropics and also locally called “chigger”.
As for “nigiri”…I once heard a waiter refer to it as “nee-HEAR-ee”, which I’m pretty sure isn’t how it’s pronounced in Japanese, but I couldn’t decide if he was trying to be politically correct or just pretentious. You know, like the Ralph Lau-REN crowd.