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On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:37:14 -0700, Caída de la casa >
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>On 1/29/2018 6:25 AM, Cheri wrote:
>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 6:59:32 PM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> On 1/28/2018 1:47 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > "jmcquown"Â wrote in message ...
>>> >
>>> > On 1/28/2018 12:14 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> "jmcquown"Â wrote in message ...
>>> >>
>>> >> On 1/28/2018 7:57 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> "Cindy Hamilton"Â wrote in message
>>> >>> ...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 1:14:30 PM UTC-5, casa sobre ruedas
>>> >>> wrote:
>>> >>>> On 1/27/2018 11:11 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> >>>> > wrote:
>>> >>>> >>
>>> >>>> >> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>> >>>> >>> I get the little guacamole cups from Costco.
>>> >>>> >>
>>> >>>> >> Yeah, urine specimen cups, used and repurposed. And naturally
>>> you
>>> >>>> >> don't care whose pubic hairs and nose pickings you ingest...WTF
>>> >>>> is so
>>> >>>> >> difficult about mashing an avocado... for all you know you're
>>> >>>> >> eating
>>> >>>> >> the nappy poopings from Central America.
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>> > Belize comes to mind here.Â
>>> >>>> >
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> "nappy" is a racist slur.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> It's also British slang for "diaper". Dates back to the 1920s.
>>> >>> Nothing to do with hair.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Cindy Hamilton
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ==
>>> >>>
>>> >>> What does it mean in US?
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >> The troll is trying to suggest it's about black people's hair. I've
>>> >> always heard and understood the term to mean dirty diapers.
>>> >>
>>> >> OB Avocados: nice to know they can be frozen when they are in season.
>>> >>
>>> >> Jill
>>> >> ==
>>> >>
>>> >> Yes we call 'diapers' nappies. Not necessarily dirty though.
>>> >
>>> > Sorry, but nappies usually wind up being soiled, no?
>>> >
>>> > Jill
>>> >
>>> > ==
>>> >
>>> > Usually, but I would still call a pile of clean nappies ... er >
>>> nappies)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> So do I. It's the troll who is trying to turn this into some sort of
>>> racial slur. Nappy is a diaper unless you live under a bridge and are a
>>> nymshifting troll.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> No, it's not. I've heard "nappy headed" for years. I have never heard
>> any native-born American refer to diapers as "nappies".
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>> =====
>>
>> I have never heard an American call them nappies either, but I sure have
>> heard *nappy* used other ways.
>>
>> Cheri
>
>
>Right, like a contraction for a napkin or even a towlette.

Origin of nappy is Scottish:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nappy

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I doubt it) I have known about nappies all my life and I wasn't in
Scotland then)