"Nee" = or; or perhaps

[James C Stalker]

How about this as a meaning shift path: nee ('formerly', as in the maiden or
previously married name of a woman) > interpreted as 'also known as' (aka) >
extended to 'perhaps'?

JCS

Jonathan Lighter writes:

> Get this:
>
>  "In that glossary was the term Peola ( it may have been Pecola)  it
> was many many years ago I last saw it.  Peola (nee Pecola) is an young
> attractive fair skin Negro girl." -- "Broye," "Harlem Slang" (Usenet: soc.culture.african.american.moderated ) (Apr. 17, 1999).
>
> JL
>
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James C. Stalker
Department of English
Michigan State University