dirty words in dictionaries: semi-final thoughts

[Douglas G. Wilson]

My copy of the Wessely Handy Dictionary has no date but it looks old, like
1900-ish.

It has the c-word all right.

There is no entry for "mentula". No other 'dirty words' that I can find,
except maybe this one ... at least this seems odd: Latin "penis" has
English translation "man's yard" (I would have expected English "penis", I
guess).

-- Doug Wilson