Re: Certificate of Performance.

[Chris Harris <yesford@clear.net.nz>]

A nappy to us colonial folks is a diaper.
Chris Harris..........New Zealand.

> Curious. Here it is from the online dictionary of etymology. News to me.
>
> nappy (adj.)
> "downy," 1499, from nap (n.). Meaning "fuzzy, kinky," used in colloquial 
> or
> derogatory ref. to the hair of black people, is from 1950.