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To: AnAmericanMother

Did the ‘c’ word appear? I know that that has an even earlier recorded history than the ‘F’ word and has definitely been around for at least as long. (Although having said that, many medieval streets in England that were places were prostitutes plied their trade were called things like ‘Gropec*** Lane’, perhaps there was a time when the ‘F’ word was considered much worse than the ‘C’ word...


29 posted on 12/06/2012 11:09:53 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

No, but Abe was pretty agile and athletic and knew a cunning array of stunts...


32 posted on 12/06/2012 11:13:47 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

The “C” word (see you next tuesday)goes at least back to Middle English—check out Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale—IIRC, the use of the term “quaint honour” in Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” is a reference to virginity.


37 posted on 12/06/2012 12:29:30 PM PST by cooperj
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