On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Mon Aug 1 18:21:08 UTC 2011


On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Larry Horn wrote:

> and elsewhere:
>
> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/If_you_had_sex_unprotectedly_does_this_mean_you_are_pregnant
>
> (if you're curious, the wikianswer is essentially "Maybe")
>
> More poetically, someone asks Yahoo! Answers? [weird punctuation!]:
> Would you rather unprotectedly sail near sirens or into the Bermuda Triangle?
>
> while urbandictionary offers this as a definition of "unprotectedly":
> Sexting with a case on your phone. The case will act as a condom.
>
> YMMV.

OED2, under "unprotected":

unproˈtectedly adv.
1823    Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 461   Seeing their friends massacred unprotectedly all round them.
>
> LH
>
> On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
>> "He's my baby daddy because he's *always* been having sex with me
>> _unprotectedly_!"

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