Taboo replacements

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu writes:

>Yet we also see "resurrected taboo words" such as "jock," which formerly
>meant "penis" and now means "athlete" [at least in America] and even
>"jockette" for a female athlete

-- if a word stays out of circulation long enough, it loses its 'ooomph' as a
forbidden term and can be reused, if it hasn't been altogether forgotten.