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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Grocka: That's just Dumb. Nigeria is pronounced Ny 'jheer'i'a. So the short, if it was used, which it isn't, would be pronounced Ny'jheer'ee. Although "Nigerians" is more correct, it would be easy to slip and call them "Nigerans"... of course, THEN someone would just have to point out that "Nigerans" are the inhabitants of Niger, a country NEAR Nigeria. (Really creative, these country-naming folks) The other word is pronounced totally differently, DOESN'T apply to citizens of any particular country, and would be far less likely to be used by mistake in any case. Tom: "Liberarian???!!" That's a SLUR! You'll be hearing from my lawyers! :p Tom, the PURPOSE of the article WAS to imply just such a thing. How can we tell? Because, as I said before, it's totally unnewsworthy otherwise. So Bush shortens words when he talks. I know lots of people who do that. BFHD. It just so happens that some people in a country Bush isn't from consider the shortened version to be a 'slur.' Frankly, I'm not impressed. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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