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To: jmc1969
It's funny how the article speaks of a generational divide, with black, and now white, youths using the word freely. In my experience, old people are far more likely to use it, usually with some apologia like, "we used to call it..."

A Brazil nut: "N-toes"
A fly-fisherman's term for a form of bait-fishing: "N-fishing"
38 posted on 03/01/2007 5:12:39 AM PST by DWPittelli
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To: DWPittelli

You forgot those yummy chocolate candies we used to get at the movie theater on Saturdays: "n" babies.


69 posted on 03/02/2007 5:45:30 PM PST by Palladin (You cannot glorify God better than by a calm and joyous life.--Spurgeon)
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