The shrubs have to be cut anyway and I am too big a niggard to grant anything to the slugs that could otherwise be used.
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In one form or another, Shakespeare uses ` niggard'at least a dozen times, as for example when Brutus tells Cassius in " Julius Caesar " that it is late and time to get some sleep:
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Trade is raised to highest pitch, and this not in a niggard and scanty manner as when the Venetians served all Europe . . . the empire of Europe is now extended to the utmost bounds of the Earth . ""
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Howard knew that niggardly, meaning miserly, was not related to the n-word it resembles : Niggard is Middle English, probably from Old Norse, while that other word comes from the Latinate languages'word for " black ."
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Consider this from Samuel Richardson's " Pamela, " widely believed to be the first English novel : " What is my single happiness if I suffer it, niggard-like, to extend no further than to myself ?"
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In the 1840s, the " Morning Chronicle " newspaper report series " London Labour and the London Poor ", by Henry Mayhew, records the usages of both " nigger " and its false cognate " niggard " denoting a false bottom for a grate.
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Sol Steinmetz, a New York lexicographer and former editorial director of Random House's reference division, said the word goes back to the 14th-century Scandinavian term " niggard, " meaning miser, thus preceding by hundreds of years the entry of the racial slur into the English language, which happened about 1700.
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Sol Steinmetz, a New York lexicographer and former editorial director of Random House reference division, said that for the record, the word goes back to the 14th century Scandinavian " niggard, " meaning miser, thus preceding by hundreds of years the circa 1700 Latin word " niger, " or black, that the offensive term derives from.
