Re: virus: Language

infekshun (luxferro@nwlink.com)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:19:39 -0800


Paul wrote:
>> TA was "nigarology" or something like that, which supposedly came from the
>> word "niguard". Both of them are defined along the lines of meaning
>> "silliness, buffoonary, foolishness" and the like. That struck me as odd
>
>do you know if nigger came before niguard. Maybe the racial slur nigger
>derived from niguard. Does anyone know the etymology of nigger or niguard?

When Niger saw his father Saul in the tent naked, he was banished to the
south which later became the Niger river region of Africa?

infek