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First, the Furniture.  Apparently a Canadian family bought a new couch, and on reading the product label, they found a bad word.

Racial slur on sofa label stuns family

When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as "Nigger-brown."

She and husband Douglas purchased a sofa, loveseat and chair in dark brown leather last week from Vanaik Furniture and Mattress store on Dundas St. E.

Moore, 30, who describes herself as an African-American born and raised in New York, said it was her 7-year-old daughter who pointed out the label just after delivery men from the Mississauga furniture store left.

"She's very curious and she started reading the labels," Moore explained. "She said, `Mommy, what is nig ... ger brown?' I went over and just couldn't believe my eyes."

She said yesterday each piece had a similar label affixed to the woven protective covering wrapped around the furniture.

"In this day and age, that's totally unacceptable," Moore said.

As the story unfolds it appears the furniture is from a supplier in China, so this is apparently not a KKK plot.

I have to wonder what the explanation will be.  I know that translations from China to English can have comical turns to them when they are done badly, but this is not quite comical.

While I can safely wonder if this was an accidental translation, or some other innocent explanation or not, I do find the families reaction interesting as well.  While noting that no one has used the word against her:

Moore, who has a younger son and daughter, said she's heard the word used many times, although it has never been directed in anger at her.

She now faces a dilemma:

Moore said she's not sure she wants the sofa set in her home.

"Every time I sit on it, I'll think of that," she said.