“Niggardly.” Go on, I dare you. Say it. Savor those syllables. Let your tongue caress those consonants. If you’re black and reading this, you may well have just laughed, smiled knowingly, been ...

A viral clip of Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders using the word “niggardly” at a 1986 debate has begun to circulate anew on the weekend of the South ...

Calling someone a racist for using the oft-misunderstood word “niggardly” does not constitute defamation, a Mendocino County Superior Court judge has ruled. The decision concludes a small claims ...

One Broward County drug counselor has been fired and another suspended for an incident in which an “N-word” was used. Not necessarily “the N-word,” but a word that might have been mistaken for it. The ...

Its origins are murky, but probably from Old Norse: mid-14c., nygart, of uncertain origin. The suffix suggests French origin (cf. –ard), but the root word is probably related to O.N. hnøggr “stingy,” ...

Beyond its homophonic resemblance, the word niggardly has no connection to the N-word. Niggardly means stingy or miserly. The late comedian Jack Benny, who made a career as a cheapskate, was niggardly ...

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go,” said King Claudius in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Rochester, N.Y.-based English teacher Jim Quinlisk might have wanted to read that line. His words, along with ...