" … the bedazzled _vaginas_ …"

[Laurence Horn]

On Jul 8, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wilson is technically correct, but in my experience this usage goes back at least forty years.
>
> Not in *my* experience. Sometimes, life just seems to break ny way! ;-)
>
>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:--
>>> "Vulva" sounds Latin and technical
>
> I agree. That's why I suggested the, IME, little-used "twat." About 65
> years ago, there was a joke about stewardesses offering aitline
> passengers "TWA tea" - it had to be explained to me; I hadn't heard
> "twat" before - and, once, on PBS, "Flowery Twats" was shown
> anagrammed out of "Fawlty Towers," but those appear to have been the
> peak of the use of "twat," […]
>
at least since the immortal entry in Webster's NID2, with the legendary "Erron. Browning" annotation

LH

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