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[William Ryan]

I don't think "niggardly" has gone anywhere in UK English. On the day 
after the Chancellor's annual budget it is in fairly free use in the 
press. As far as I know it hasn't outraged any politically correct folk 
etymologists here yet. Try "to scotch" or "to welsh" in Parliament, 
however, and you will be immediately rebuked. For reversal of meaning in 
Russian, zdorovo izbit' would be a good example.

On 21/03/2013 04:13, Robert Orr wrote:... Maybe жадны, etc., will go the 
way of “niggardly” in English
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