Deictic – English editing.
Deictic is a word specifying identity or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or listener in the context…
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Niggardly – English editing.
Niggardly has no historical connection with nigger, but because it sounds like it, and probably because it is at the…
Nevertheless – English editing.
It is quite common to find nevertheless spelled ‘never the less’. Although this is how it was written many centuries…
Negroid – English editing.
The term Negroid belongs to a set of terms introduced by 19th-century anthropologists attempting to categorize human races. Such terms…
Negro – English editing.
The word Negro was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and is first recorded in the mid 16th century. It remained…
Native American – English editing.
Native American is now the current accepted term in most contexts, particularly in the US, for a member of any…
Native – English editing.
In contexts such as a native of Boston the use of the noun native is quite acceptable. But when used…
Nama – English editing.
The Nama people are one of the khoikhoi peoples of South Africa and SW Namibia. They have in the past…