etymology - What does the verb nig mean? - English Language Usage . . . One might assume that "nig" is a back-formation from "renege", which according to Wiktionary can pronounced like "re-nig" "Renege" means to break a promise, and filling a jug from a self-service soda fountain certainly breaks the implied promise that the customer made to the restaurant to fill only the cup that the customer bought
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I used the word "renege" in a meeting the other day (something like, "the vendor decided to renege on their offer of shipping replacement SAN disks"), and got a few wide eyes
When and why did the N-word and negro go apart? Both the terms nigger and negro come from the Spanish and Portuguese Negro which denotes "black" But today they have widely different connotations, the former is considered a horrible racial slur,
Whats the difference between “by night” and “at night”? The expression by night is typically used to contrast someone's nighttime activities to their daytime activities, especially when the nighttime activities are unusual or unexpected
etymology - What is the origin of the 7 8 9 joke? - English Language . . . Barry Popik, in "Entry from May 09, 2016", mentions the joke is in the 19 January 1986, Chicago (IL) Tribune I observe an appearance of a version of the joke in The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, New Jersey) of 20 Dec 1980:
How do people greet each other when in different time zones? We usually say 'Good evening to India, good afternoon to Germany, good morning to America' or equivalent, or 'good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whichever time it is where you are', but it is still everytime as a half- or quarter-joke; there is simply no standard way to handle it, as it is too new a need to have made it into standard language