OK I have gotten a couple of emails from folks telling me I spell my blog name wrong. Per some "Siditty", is really "Saditty". The spelling of my name came from Maya Angelou's "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", I am sure it can be spelled either or, but I had to research things. Per the urban dictionary it is "saditty". Per Wikipedia it can be "Saditty", "Seditty", or "Siditty".
Either or, "siditty" is what my momma used to call me when I was little. I was a spoiled child and that was her way of telling me I was stuck up. She still uses this term, as well as my husband, and his best friend, and it is all in reference to me. I guess that should tell me something
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I've seen both spellings. It's the thought that counts though! LOL! ;0
And are the people who were harassing you about the spelling English majors or something?
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I am not sure, but a few people have sent me emails telling me it is spelled "saditty", so I did my internet research to verify LOL
Siditty or Saditty.. Tomatoes or Tamotoes. lol You think they'd have better things to do than pick on you for your blog title. sheesh
I'm more used to seditty with an 'e' but I'll take either. I get called siditty too.
Girl have your blog whatever name you want it. Siditty, these people don't have anything better to do. God bless them.
At least no one was nasty about it, but it had me wondering. I got like three emails about it in the last few days, and thenYan sent me an email about a woman who had a blog who spelled her name "saddity", so I had to research it :)
Well I was miffed over it for you. I thought the anon and HK guy calling you "Saditty" were trying to make it a putdown. But it was just an alternate spelling so it seems! Anyway, I never encountered the term before reading your blog.
you are not snobbish ? are u ?
you are not snobbish ? are u ?
Sometimes it depends on what you are talking about. I am snobbish about music and movies at times.
What I love about this word is that it is a *true* slave descendant word yet is NOT in the dictionary. How can something be considered slang when my 80 year old grandmother uses it? There's the side of Ebonics we tend to forget about...
Thembi,
You are so on point, black "slang" like any other evolves over time, but it never seems to become just a part of the vernacular that ends up in the dictionary like other words. My country momma uses the word, and my husband and his friend never used the word until they heard my mom, and now they use it for me.
I thought everyone knew what it meant :)
This got me curious. Here is who uses which spelling:
siditty: Maya Angelou, XXL, Fonzworth Bentley.
saditty: Vibe magazine, K'wan, Fabolous, 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Method Man, D'angelo, B2K.
seditty: Michael Eric Dyson, Debra Dickerson.
ciditty: no one notable.
ciddidy: Ntozake Shange.
Essence, Ebony, King, The Source, The Economist and the New York Times do NOT use the word, at least not online.
Not counting your blog, the word is used 27,000 times on the Web. Here is the breakdown:
52.0% saditty
33.3% siditty
12.8% seditty
8.1% ciditty
0.0% ciddidy
My own rule for words like these is to follow the Vibe spelling, which is saditty in this case.
Just so you know....
Why would I use the Vibe spelling? I used "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" because when I was little and first saw the word, it was in there, and Vibe did not exist. Why would Vibe be my source of spelling words?
I spell it how my momma and Maya Angelou spell it, Vibe can kick rocks :)
Someone sent me a link to this song, they spell it "Siditty" too.
Using Angelou is reasonable: it is where most people would probably come across it in print.
I use Vibe because it is online and therefore easy to search, it is professionally edited, unlike the Wikipedia and the Urban Dictionary, and it (along with The Economist) is the most likely place to find words being used that are not in my dictionary.
By the way, here is a Chinese forum where they seem to be wondering about the word - it seems it was used in an episode of "Everybody Hates Chris". They also talk about "knock you into next week", which is probably not in the dictionary either.
Using Angelou is reasonable: it is where most people would probably come across it in print.
I use Vibe because it is online and therefore easy to search, it is professionally edited, unlike the Wikipedia and the Urban Dictionary, and it (along with The Economist) is the most likely place to find words being used that are not in my dictionary.
By the way, here is a Chinese forum where they seem to be wondering about the word - it seems it was used in an episode of "Everybody Hates Chris". They also talk about "knock you into next week", which is probably not in the dictionary either.
http://www.dreye.com/tw/bbs/search.phtml?num=2&search=hates
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