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by dahart 728 days ago
> Niggard is unrelated to the racial slur we’re thinking of but in fairness I can understand how it would raise eyebrows.

Would it be fair to say that a history of raising eyebrows establishes some relationship between otherwise previously unrelated words?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_n...