> [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]
> [but Pat, it's the same root word ;-) ]
Bzzzt. Not even close.
The following link
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gives a good explanation and even provides full details of the Washington, D.C. example I half-remembered the other day.cheers,
Henry