• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I always thought it was a mispronunciation of Niger or Nigeria or something like that.

    I had the mental image of some stupid white slave owner who’s barely capable of reading misusing that word and it spread. So this is new information to me.

    • ShimitarA
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      1 day ago

      Are you serious?

      Where are you from?