Its chance resemblance to nigger is such that many of us might quite justifiably choose to avoid it in favor of stingy, parsimonious, or penurious. Niggardly is, to be sure, an awkward little word.
Things from the other person's shoes," he explained, "and I did not do that." A former president of the National Bar Association, a mostly black group, was uncompelled by theįact that the word is not a racial slur, fuming, "Do we really know where the Norwegians got the word?" Meanwhile, David Howard was contrite, considering his dismissal deserved. His official position being that in a predominantly black city with a history of racial tension, Howard's choice of words was grounds for dismissal, akin to being "caught smoking in a refinery that resulted inĪn explosion." Black talk radio was abuzz with indignation, almost unanimously in support of Williams's decision. Shortly thereafter, Mayor Williams curtly accepted Howard's resignation, The black coworker immediately stormed out of the room and would not listen to Howard's attempt to explain. Howard's coworkers were a white person and a black person. Unknown in England, and had been imported to the country by Scandinavian Viking invaders in the 800s, in whose tongue nig meant "miser." It has been used in English since the Middle Ages, when black people of any kind were
Niggardly is a rather esoteric word meaning "stingy." Its resemblance to the racial slur nigger is accidental. In January 1999, David Howard, the white ombudsman to the newly elected mayor of Washington, D.C., Anthony Williams, casually said in a budget meeting with two coworkers "I will have to be niggardly with this fund because it's not going to be
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