--- Jim McKenney <jimmckenney@starpower.net> wrote: > No, Arnold, because it would be spelled Nijer, the > way the modern > "sanitized" packaging for niger seed goes. i have heard the country of Niger (and the river for which it's named) pronounced both NYE-jer or nee-JER, but i haven't heard it with a hard G yet. someone i know, a tropical fish wholesaler in canada, had messages returned because servers automatically rejected them for containing the words "Rio Negro" appended to a fish species, rio negro being where they are from in the amazon. i understand people can be sensitive to some words. recall sometime ago that a DC gov't official used the word "niggardly" in his talk and people were upset? the word itself comes from scandinavian and has no connotation of black at all. tsuh yang __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com/