taint

[Wilson Gray]

On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> At 5:46 PM +0100 4/7/05, neil wrote:
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>> I'm possibly aware of it from Roger's profanisaurus.
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>> See also
>> http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/text/excerpts/pdf/0732276810.pdf
>> page 4
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> This is very nice.  Note, however, the following claim on p. 19 of
> this treatise:
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> "In Sanskrit, one of the ancient languages from which English
> derives, the female genital part we call the vag [we do?], or cunt,
> was called 'cushi'. The ancient Greeks called it 'cunnus', and then
> in Old English it became 'queynt'.  Now we know it as 'cunt'."
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> I'm hoping Dr. Morrissey's sexual expertise is more reliable than her
> etymology and comparative linguistics.
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> L
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Damn! if I'd had the bullshit-writing gonads of Dr. Morrissey, I
could've completed my thesis! Naturally, having such a thesis accepted
is a different matter.

-Wilson