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18th Feb 2011, 03:08

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stepwilk

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There was a huge fuss several years ago in the U. S., can't remember the exact circumstances or context, but a newspaper op-ed writer--as I remember--used the perfectly valid word "niggardly," meaning stingy, and the scheiss hit the impeller...