[78-L] OT: The 'N' Word.

[Julian Vein]

Spats wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was watching Antiques Roadshow on TV this morning.
> Therein was a small carved piece depicting a black man and it was 
> made around 1800.
> The word they used to describe it could be the answer for the perfect 
> next PC word for black people.
> It's much less cumbersome that 'African American'.
> Indeed, you don't need to be either African or American...
> 
> Ironically, it's another 'N' word, but I think that it sounds rather grand...
> ...and it's one of the oldest words to refer to black people...
> 
> 'Nubian'.
> 
> Earl.
> 
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Oddly enough my 1979 Collins English Dictionary doesn't specifically 
include "Nubian" as referring to a person, only an adjective pertaining 
to a particular area of NE Africa.

       Julian Vein