Re: "write him" was Re: More questions
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 28, 2003, 1:52 |
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--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed scripsit:
>
> > First of all, I never hear the word
> > "stop-cock" over here; it's a "faucet".
>
> The non-obscene senses of "cock" died out in
> American English in the 1870s,
Except for actual cock (the chicken); stopcock,
shuttlecock, cock your
rifle/shotgun/weapon-of-choice, etc. Not èveryone
in the US is as dirty minded as you
Manhattonionites! ;)
> a period to which we also owe the euphemisms
> "white meat" and "dark meat"
> for the (cooked) breast and leg of fowl, the
> words "breast" and "leg"
> being at that time taboo.
Yep.
Padraic.
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