Re: "write him" was Re: More questions
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 28, 2003, 0:36 |
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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,
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.
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