https://davetrott.co.uk/2019/04/whats-in-a-word/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-in-a-word Powered by The Barn Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:40:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://davetrott.co.uk/2019/04/whats-in-a-word/#comment-147812 Sun, 28 Apr 2019 17:40:01 +0000 http://davetrott.co.uk/?p=2170#comment-147812 The problem isn’t that the word ‘niggardly’ is pretentious, which it isn’t. It’s a perfectly good word. The problem is that in this day and age,
it’s not just certain words that are banned for fear of causing offence, it’s also words which have absolutely no relevance to those ‘certain words’
but which might, in part, have a similar sound that are banned as well. And if you can defend that then we’re are in trouble.

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