[boatbums]

My instructor in college explained it as a “triple negative”. He said the word meant “no, not, never, at any time, at any place, any purpose, whether male, female or even neuter, perpetually, eternally” perish. WHEW!

[Elsie]

NOW he’d have to include: LGBTWZYX!!

[ealgeone]

I think that covers it!