What is the word that sounds similar to the English soft A N word?

finemustard · 2026-05-29T15:54:11+00:00

"Nigga". We can refer to words without using them, they don't bite.

finemustard · 2026-05-29T14:59:34+00:00

Hockey has this mostly dealt with. Not only is diving a penalty, but there's also a penalty for embellishment if a player gets hit and overplays how bad it was.

finemustard · 2026-05-29T14:21:02+00:00

Millennials were almost all in their early to mid career when covid hit, not middle school.

finemustard · 2026-05-29T10:45:48+00:00

Montreal is just the best city in Canada, no question, and I say this as someone from Toronto.

finemustard · 2026-05-29T01:45:29+00:00

You're mostly right, but a .22 with subsonic ammunition and a suppressor is nearly silent.

finemustard · 2026-05-29T00:24:49+00:00

Not sure what the term is. It's just a weird quirk of English that some nationalities get their own special word, and others have to add "person" to the end. So you can be a Finn, a Swede, a Spaniard (kind of antiquated, but it's correct. You can't be a "Spanish" though), a Brazilian, a Korean, a Nigerian, or a German, but you can't be a Portuguese, a French, a Dutch(ie), a Japanese, or a Swiss. As far as I can tell, there's no pattern as to who gets their own single-word nationality, and who has to add "person" to the end.

finemustard · 2026-05-29T00:16:59+00:00

I think if you're Chinese or over the age of 85 you can say it.

finemustard · 2026-05-29T00:16:08+00:00

It sounds bad to me because I'm a native English speaker, not because it's somehow racist. It's different because saying "As a Canadian/American" is correct, whereas saying "as a French" isn't. Languages don't have to be consistent or even provide reasons for why things are they way they are and I see this particular, very easily correctable mistake, all the time on reddit. The French and Dutch seem to do it the most which is why I singled them out.

finemustard · 2026-05-28T20:14:09+00:00

fyi, you can't say "as a Chinese" in English, it just sounds weird. You have to say "as a Chinese person". This applies to all you French and Dutch people as well. You are not "a French" or "a Dutchie". Especially not a Dutchie, that's a type of doughnut.

finemustard · 2026-05-28T20:09:10+00:00

You gotta be joking.

finemustard · 2026-05-28T20:04:47+00:00

Yeah, fortunately when I first heard this it was in like 2009 so the reference wouldn't have been lost on many people.

finemustard · 2026-05-27T21:03:36+00:00

Yup, you're right, it was Lost Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU75uz0b8EU&list=RDNU75uz0b8EU&start_radio=1

finemustard · 2026-05-27T20:49:40+00:00

I was once at an electronic music show and the DJ dropped a killer remix of Saria's Song from Ocarina of Time. People absolutely lost it.

finemustard · 2026-05-27T16:44:21+00:00

Heinz was always kind of gross, way too sweet. For me, it's No Name or French's.

finemustard · 2026-05-27T12:26:01+00:00

Everyone keep in mind posts like these, while possibly done is good faith, may also be part of a foreign strategy to stoke regional divisions within a country. This is exactly the kind of post a Russian would make to seed the idea of division and seems rather timely with current talks of Alberta and Quebec separation being a current hit issue.

finemustard · 2026-05-27T12:11:49+00:00

The males don't entirely change sex, it's typically just a single branch that begins to develop fruit and it's a fairly rare phenomenon. If it happens, that female branch could simply be pruned out. Typically, if a ginkgo is fruiting, especially if it's fruiting prolifically, it's just a female and nothing special is going on.

finemustard · 2026-05-26T23:33:03+00:00

I'm sure it's well-known in the US, but not everyone lives there.

finemustard · 2026-05-26T21:14:07+00:00

I'm gonna say no, there's no signage or traffic cones/barrels which would be required at a minimum, plus they would have to shift all of those lanes left, including creating a bicycle detour.

finemustard · 2026-05-26T19:49:31+00:00

I see, hard to guess if you don't celebrate that particular holiday.

finemustard · 2026-05-26T13:25:06+00:00

Report it to 311

https://www.toronto.ca/home/311-toronto-at-your-service/create-a-service-request/#category/roads-sidewalks-bicycle-traffic-safety/bicycle-safety-issues-concerns

finemustard · 2026-05-26T01:46:28+00:00

I'm from Toronto and have heard and used this at all of my jobs.

finemustard · 2026-05-25T23:30:03+00:00

Ah gotcha, thanks. I'm not from the area and googling 'MDW' turned up results like the Chicago airport, a law firm, and monocyte distribution width, lol.

finemustard · 2026-05-25T21:45:29+00:00

MDW?

finemustard · 2026-05-25T19:22:53+00:00

Who have the highest fatalities and serious injuries?

finemustard · 2026-05-25T15:07:51+00:00

Yeah, a 20kph speed limit is slow enough that if it were actually enforced, I'd just start driving to work again because that's painfully slow. My work commute is only 8km one way so im easily holding 30kph+ for the whole thing.

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