Exposure to language

[sagehen]

>Footnote:  I still can't say "dish the dirt."
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>Perfect!  But Randolph's story has a particular resonance for me (and it
>probably did for him too), because in my childhood in Minnesota our term
>for 'shit' was in fact 'dish'.  But we used old catalogs, not rags. . . .
>
>Was this use of 'dish' in the vocabularies of any of the rest of you
>oldtimers?
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I can't remember ever hearing this. I'm wondering has it tainted other uses
of "dish," too?  Was it thought of as a euphemism?  So many euphemisms
retain the stinks of their illegitimate employment when back in their old
jobs.
A. Murie