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Re: USAGE: Dirty words (was: USAGE: Re: Dutch v or f)

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Thursday, April 25, 2002, 10:39
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>

> It's worse than that. The major English dictionaries do not (or did not) > even define the perfectly decorous term "sexual intercourse", whose
meaning
> cannot be deduced from its parts; or else they do so in blatantly > circular ways, usually involving the word "coitus". So it's not just > the *words* they seem to have a problem with, but the concepts > themselves.
I checked the American Heritage Dictionary online -- http://www.bartleby.com/61/ -- and found entries for all of Carlin's Seven Forbidden Words (plus his three additions), as well as their various derivations. ~Danny~