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To: TroutStalker
Anyone else notice that NIGER seed is now spelled NYJER? Did Trent Lott have anything to do with this?
56 posted on 12/27/2002 7:18:00 PM PST by Uncle Sausage
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To: Uncle Sausage
Anyone else notice that NIGER seed is now spelled NYJER? Did Trent Lott have anything to do with this?

I'm old enough to remember when Brazil nuts were known by a slang name that would be fine if spoken by Robert Byrd, but be sure poison for any conservative uttering the term today.

I wonder what Trent calls them?

61 posted on 12/27/2002 9:43:51 PM PST by Denver Ditdat
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To: Uncle Sausage
Anyone else notice that NIGER seed is now spelled NYJER?

Yeah, I saw that... Illiteracy hard at work again (remember, we've banned "Niggardly" from the English language now too). When you're so illiterate you don't know the difference between "Their", "They're", and "There", needless to say, you probably can't pronounce "Niger" correctly either, so the solution is obviously to just ban it.

(MY solution, of course, in response to such tactics, is to start pronouncing "Niger" the wrong way...)

81 posted on 12/28/2002 12:16:24 PM PST by fire_eye
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