Tom Curran uses an obscure word that sounds like a slur, startling his co-hosts

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1. This is frying me hahah. The way she reaches for the handle of her chair.

2. Let a naysayer know

   That TC is a jackass regardless of the words he uses

3. I mean….is that really an obscure word?

4. Oh. Naggers.

5. I don’t care for Tom Curran, so this is hilarious. But TIL niggling is a word and it means: causing slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety. So sounds like he at least used it correctly.

6. I immediately thought of “ka-niggits” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The was how the French taunter (John Cleese) pronounced the word “knights”

7. Just watched an episode of Schitts Creek where Moira used it too and I had to do a double take since I was half paying attention.

8. If any word that begins with n-I-g reminds you of something offensive, you’re the problem.

9. It’s a perfectly cromulent word. But yea, in today’s climate people are always gonna hear it wrong and cringe, so it’s better to use something different when you’re on tv.

10. I expected something far worse.

11. “I’d like to answer”

12. Uh… think some of you guys are overreacting to absolutely nothing here. That’s a totally normal word that most people know and there’s no reaction at all from his co-hosts.

13. Holy shit there are a bunch of absolute potato brained idiots in here who don’t know the word niggle or niggling.

14. Kind of like the first time I heard a casual chinese conversation using “那个” (nèi ge).

15. Niggling injuries, once you’re in your 30’s you have them all the time from doing nothing

16. I thought he said brazillians at first.

17. Looked like she triggered a silent alarm😂

18. This is not a slur. It just sounds like the word. This is why conservatives win elections. If you don’t want that to happen, get over it.

19. People with subpar lexicons are the only ones actually worried about this.

20. English major Tom Curran.

21. It’s not that obscure of a word…at all. Also, if it was a slur it wouldn’t even make sense in context…

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24. What a dead trade deadline does some of ya’s. Who gives a shit about this?

25. So scared of words

26. An F1 announcer said a similar word during a race

27. I’ve always wondered, as someone from the colonies, if words like niggle are less commonly used in the USA. Niggle is quite commonly used in Australia, for example a strained muscle or pain in your back could be described as a niggle or a niggling pain(and often is in a sports context).

    It could also be used to refer to some light foul play, for example some trash talk or an extra shove or digging an elbow in during a tackle is described as niggling also.

28. It’s a pretty common word for a minor annoyance. I could imagine it had racial connotations at some point. All words have meaning.

29. That’s hilarious — I just finished watching “True Grit” a few minutes ago, and Hailee Steinfeld’s character used the same word. Made me do a double-take.

30. Betcha it was some “word of the day” recency bias

31. He loves to be wordy and bring up his major in English all the time. Just a nerd trying to flex to a crowd that doesnt care.

32. Anyone know how to spell that word?

33. Proving once again america has a poor education system

34. Oh look at the liberal Trenny getting all up in arms.

35. It is a very common word for us in Australia, for example “I have a niggling pain in my knee”. Also common in the likes of the United Kingdom etc.

36. Ya’ll need to bring hooked on phonics back again

37. It’s not that obscure.

38. It’s used in Blood Bowl, so I always thought it was a common term for certain injuries in American Football

39. Na that mf knew what he was doing

40. Tom Curran is insufferable

41. Luckily he didn’t refer to Kraft using a synonym for “parsimonious”.

42. Funny as a Brit.

    We use niggle/niggling all the time. I’m not certain I’m right, but it might be because use of the similar sounding pejorative term is much rarer here.

    That’s not to say there’s no racism problem. Plenty of thick as a constipation shite arseholes here too

43. If you think that’s obscure, you need to renew your library card.