LL-L "Lexicon" 2006.05.15 (03) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 15 May 2006 * Volume 3
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From: "Global Moose Translations" <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2006.05.14 (07) [E]

Sandy wrote:
>I think the perception of this as a rude word might be fairly recent? We
>have words like "dummy tit", "tom tit", "blue tit" and so on and they
>cause no remark.

Well, my American husband regretted he had asked about the birds in front of
our kitchen window, and I had to inform him that they were actually Great
Tits. This has become a running joke in our family. No wonder the Americans
prefer to call related birds chickadees...

A Dutch friend of mine who lives in Germany feels very amused whenever he
hears the word "Apeetit" (appetite); he claims that this word doesn't exist
in Dutch and sounds like "apen-tit" (monkey, er, gland)to him.

Gabriele Kahn

P.S: I, too, have heard Tittie for Laetitia.

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