On "Maury" heard unexpectedly:

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 1, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> 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.

But perhaps tending to be used in a more specialized way now, given the earlier euphemistic specialization of "protection".  Not semantic narrowing as such (yet).

LH
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>> "He's my baby daddy because he's *always* been having sex with me
>>> _unprotectedly_!"
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