Redding, Robert, Jr.
Washington Informer
08-01-2001
Georgia lawyer fights to delete "N" word
Macon, Ga.- Roy Miller, a Georgia-based business law and criminal defense
attorney, already credited with the words removal from all editions of Funk
& Wagnalls dictionaries, is now fighting to remove the "N" word removed
from all dictionaries.
Miller said he became determined to change a dictionary published by Funk &
Wagnalls on when his then 13-year-old niece Darlinda Collier Douglass
became despondent while reading the meaning of the term. The definition
read: "nigger n. A Negro or member of any dark - skinned people: a vulgar
and offensive term (See NEGRO)."
Outraged over the term, Miller fired ...