[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Like the time I used the word
> 'niggardly' in this Digest and was promptly scolded for using racist
> language. (That is an /a/ as the fifth letter from the left and not > an /e/) PAT]
It gets even worse than that, Pat. Some years ago there was a budget analyst in the Washington, D.C. local government who referred to a particular expenditure as niggardly. He was fired!
cheers,
Henry