BULLOCKS - euph/typo/LA pron.?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:14 AM -0400 5/4/05, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>Fritz rebuts Larry:

No he doesn't.  (I believe Jon was the rebuttee on this.)  I never
speculated on the prevalence of "poppycock", although I don't think
of it as particularly rare.  What I was rebutting was the proposed
'dried-up dung' etymology:

>  isn't "papekak" [sic] soft dung/excrement rather than the dried-up
>  variety?  Any Dutch speakers on the list?

...and I've since acknowledged that the spelling should have been "pappekak"

L


>    >>>>>
>"poppycock" rare in US spoken English?  Poppycock!! Use it all the time. But
>then again, maybe I'm the last holdout?
>Fritz J
>  <<<<<
>
>No sir, you are not alone!
>
>-- Mark
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