When we speak of people being “nice” we mean that they are agreeable, delightful. Yet the derivation of the word “nice” is the Latin nescius, ignorant, from ne-scire, not to know, and the Old French nice meant foolish, simple.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1941, Page 5
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