My bad SS. I read something a long time ago in some sort of book on the events of the civil war where that was brought up. Can't remember off hand but the author insisted that, the southerners had used derived a certain word from another certain word. I suffer the fool for trusting what I read.
Check out the
Usage section out:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/niggard
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