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Re: Certificate of Performance.

To: "Freiburger, David" <David.Freiburger@primedia.com>,
Subject: Re: Certificate of Performance.
From: Chris Harris <yesford@clear.net.nz>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:24:41 +1200
A nappy to us colonial folks is a diaper.
Chris Harris..........New Zealand.

> Curious. Here it is from the online dictionary of etymology. News to me.
>
> nappy (adj.)
> "downy," 1499, from nap (n.). Meaning "fuzzy, kinky," used in colloquial 
> or
> derogatory ref. to the hair of black people, is from 1950.




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