I've confessed that I believed that natty was a Jamaican way of saying nappy.

In doing so I was using my cultural experiences to explain how a word is used in another culture. Which I should have known was a no no.

But I've never heard the word natty used in conversation. Well, actually I've a vaugue recollection of hearing or reading some man described as a natty dresser. But the word gnats as in insects, 'naps' as in short periods of sleep and 'naps' {as in most Black people's natural hair texture-natural meaning unstraightened with chemicals or a hot comb} are terms that are much more familiar to me than 'natty'.

Btw, I read on the Internet that in the UK 'nappy' refers to diapers. That's a definition that I've not heard in the USA.
I'm wondering if anyone here has heard that term in the United States, and other nations. And in this age of disposible Pampers and Huggy diapers, are 'nappies' still used in the UK?

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Somewhere around the 1990s or early 2000s, this slogan was heard in among Black folks:

i'm happi
to be
nappi

-snip-

I remember wearing a tee shirt with this slogan on it. And I considered {and still consider} it as a cultural marker of Black folks efforts to counteract the powerful omnipresent media messages that tell us that we aren't as good as others because of our skin color and our hair texture and our ancestors who were enslaved.

'Having a bad hair day' has a whole 'nuther meaning for Black females since we have been taught by that our hair is always bad unless we have good hair {meaning hair that is the same texture as White people}.

It is difficult to explain to other folks how important the issue of hair is to Black women. To bring this down to the current 'hot' topic, there's no question that I think that Don Imus radio remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team were offensive. But if I were to rate what were the worse things that Imus and his producer said about these women, I would say that it was calling them jigaboos, hos, and grizzlies {a comment that for some reason has gotten very little attention}. The descriptor 'nappy haired' is insulting because Imus meant it to be insulting. I've no idea how the Black women on that Rutgers basketball team wear their hair.
I don't even know if all of these Black women have naturally nappy hair [that they go to the beauty parlour or hair dresser to get permed/straigthened/done}.

But I keep wishing that one of these women would say "Yeah, my hair is nappy. And?