Remember that big stink caused by ignoramuses about "niggardly"?

[Dinner]

AHA! I knew those bloody Norwegians were up to no good.

Bunch of Panda lovers, all of them.

The only reason I remember that is because of the NAACP protesting incident over the word niggardly which KH mentioned in the title. If I remember correctly niggardly means cheap or miserly and entered English usage during the early middle ages while the term ****** meaning a derogatory term for a black person didn't enter into common English usage until after the colonization of the American south and the starting of the African slave trade in the late 17th to early 18th centuries. The two words are homonyms so they sound similiar but have totally different meanings and origins.

[BlackCat]

He said "Romance languages", not "Roman languages".
These are a family of languages descending from Latin (French, Spanish, Italian, etc...)

Maybe this is how you got confused.

nah, I wasn't confused. While not spelling it the same way, I meant the same. Problem is that Norse isn't one of those

[Elok]

The two words are homonyms so they sound similiar but have totally different meanings and origins.

I'm guessing you don't care, but they're sort-of homophones ("same sounds"). Homonyms ("same name") have identical spellings, e.g. "quarrel," which means "heated argument" as well as "crossbow ammunition." [/liberal arts major desperately trying to make his training useful]

[Dinner]

Sorry. Mixed stuff up.

[Thoth]

The only reason I remember that is because of the NAACP protesting incident over the word niggardly which KH mentioned in the title. If I remember correctly niggardly means cheap or miserly and entered English usage during the early middle ages while the term ****** meaning a derogatory term for a black person didn't enter into common English usage until after the colonization of the American south and the starting of the African slave trade in the late 17th to early 18th centuries. The two words are homonyms so they sound similiar but have totally different meanings and origins.

Are you Norwegian?