Re: Erudite Romans :)

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:

> edheil@postmark.net writes:
> >
> >The side effect is that naughty Romans merely sound erudite. :)
>
> Boy, those romans could have the foulest mouths and sound clincal to my
> ears :).
>
> Anyway, I read somewhere that all of the polite terms for bodily functions
> and parts either come from Middle French or Latin, and all the rude words
> are of Anglo-Saxon origin. True? Yes? No?
As far as I know, with the exception of "cunt", which comes from Latin.