Re: CHAT: con-childish taunts

James Campbell wrote:

[snipped evidence for "nigger" version in GB]

On the other hand, the "tiger" version is of some antiquity
also.  In fact, the following Roman inscription was recently
discovered at Pompeii (I am not making this up):

        INI MINI MAENI MO
        CATIA TIGREM BAEDAS TO
        IFFI HALLUR LETTIM GO
        INI MINI MAENI MO

(I didn't say *nobody* made it up, just that *I* didn't.  The
evidence of HALLUR is for American, rather than English, ancestry.)

There is also that other well-known inscription on a stone column:

        TOTI
        EMUL
        ESTO

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)