Re: CHAT: A real education was Re: CHAT: Re: Ebonic Christmas

John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> >  Far better to cleanse the word through clean use.
>
> Too late now.  It is as unrecoverable as the original meaning of
> "whore" -- shown by its Latin cognate "cara"!
What is 'cara'? Oh, is it 'dear' as in Italian?
In Spanish it means 'face', but that comes from Greek
IIRC...


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