- 1N字（指 nigger 那個種族歧視字眼，通常不直接唸出來）
People say the N-word when they need to talk about a very racial slur — the word — but do not want to speak that slur out loud. The slur has a long, ugly history in American English. It was used to insult Black people and to treat them as less than human, so it is not a “normal rude word” like a joke about the body. Many listeners feel pain even hearing it, especially from someone who is not Black. Teachers, news readers, and students use “the N-word” to discuss racism, a song, or a news story without putting the insult in anyone's mouth. Though actually, the picture is messier than a simple never: some Black speakers use a close form with friends or in music, and people argue hard about who may say what. Those arguments do not give a a free pass. In class, at work, and with people you do not know well, do not say the slur. Use “the N-word” if you must refer to it.
組成A naming trick: the first letter N plus the word word. English often builds “the X-word” to point at a taboo word without pronouncing it.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
n-wordnoun
- 1
The word nigger or nigga.
- The prosecutor, his voice trembling, added that the "N-word" was so vile that he would not utter it.
- Jackson's character plays an illegal arms dealer and uses the "n-word" throughout the film, which also stars Pam Grier.
- 2
Any word, regardless of its starting letter, that is used oppressively, marginalizes or oppresses a group of people.
- [It] has become ... an equivalent of the n''' word for Maori[s].
- "It's important to understand that for Indigenous people, this word is our N-word," said Douglas Stewart, an Indigenous teacher at Harrison Trimble High School in Moncton.
- 3
The word Nazi.
- After that episode aired a new rule was posted: "Do not mention the N Word (Nazi)!"
- The preceding poem inspired the “Not Say Nazi” movement to stamp out widespread ignorance and to abolish the N-word and the F-word.
- 4
governmentpoliticsThe word nuclear.
- Parkinson has to live with the dreaded “N” word. So feared is the word “nuclear” that there are those who balk at using such harmless phrases as “nuclear family”.
- —and there is a large tendency, I think, to think of our sites totally in terms of the “n” word, the nuclear radioactive word, but 80 percent of the waste that we have on these sites is chemical hazardous waste , which makes us no different in that respect from all of the major industrial companies in the United States who have to deal with this problem.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA negation word, such as not, nobody, or nothing.
- Hence, the reasoning applied to (15) above extends to (20), leading us to conclude that the n-word rien,
- 6
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA Danish/Swedish/Norwegian noun of the common gender (their indefinite article being en), as opposed to t-words, nouns of the neuter gender (their indefinite article being et).
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