early "tits"

[Jonathan Lighter]

You can't!!!

Ain't it hell?

JL


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> On Jun 12, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > HDAS would also have included the possibly more common "... tits on a
> bull."
>
> Where can we get ahold of those counterfactual volumes, now that we know
> how to cite them?  (Sigh.)
>
> LH
> >
> > Historically speaking then, "teats" and "tits" are interchangeable.
> > Linguistically, I mean.
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:23 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
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> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> tits
> >>
> >>
> >> But that doesn't preclude a preference for "teats" in *my* speech, does
> it,
> >> especially when it appears to coincide with the personal preference of
> at
> >> least one other participant?
> >>
> >> Or maybe I've plumb missed the point.
> >>
> >> Youneverknow.
> >>
> >>
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