Honestly, we didn’t expect this big of a response to our “A Few Words Niggas Botch” feature, so first of all we would like to thank you, the reader. Having said that, we would also like for some of you readers to reread the criteria for the “botched” list. As we stated before this wasn’t meant to include all the words dumb niggas tank day in and day out. The list is a home for words educated black professionals slip up and make. Here’s what we mean.
Library
Nigga pronunciation: Lie-berry/bury. This is a regional tank; if you’re from the north, most likely you say "berry," but if you’re anywher near that Mason-Dixon line, there’s a good chance you’re stretching the shit out of that second syllable, which really is two (three in total), by the way.
Refrigerator
Nigga pronunciation: Figger-ater. This is right on the border of ignorance, but a lazy educated nigga will pass up on that re quick as shit…you know you’ve done it.
Entourage
Nigga pronunciation: On-terr-adge. I get it, if you say it right, you’d sound gay, but damn where the fuck did that “DG” come from?
Secretary
Nigga pronunciation: Sec-ah-tary. I put this one on black women. First off, even if a man was a secretary, he’d never acknowledge it. He’d say something like “administrative assistant.” Second of all, sistas took Mary J. Blige's most memorable line from “Not Gonna Cry,” and pushed the border of wrongness to the limit in a matter of weeks and haven't looked back since.
Ask
Nigga pronunciation: Axe. Uh, no, that would be the stinky deodorant.
Salmon
Nigga pronunciation: Sam-in. Fine you were hungry, but the point is you said it.
Converse
Nigga pronunciation: Conversate. Brain freeze. That’s the only excuse we have for not listing this the first go round. It’s become the signature word of the “dumb-educated nigga.” Good grief.
*Do you have any more words we missed? (we know you do) Let us know.
