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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 30 July 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.07.31 (01) [A/E]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> From: Mark Dreyer <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">
mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.07.30 (01) [E]<br>><br>> Dear Heather:<br>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Etymology"]<br>><br>> > True, sod is a cut of earth with the grass binding it. Even so, I am
<br>> wary of euphemism, but folk etymology if nothing else hath it that the<br>> term 'sod' in that application is a dainty abbreviation of the word<br>> 'sodomite'. Uttered in somilar spirit: Poor old bugger, even though
<br>> he had never been to Bulgeria, or "that way inclined": Poor old<br>> bastard, even though both the bloke's parents were married in church -<br>> to each other.<br><br>Remember that the word "sod" is also used as a verb, eg, "Sod 'em!",
<br>"Sod that!", "Sod this for a lark!" and so on.<br><br>It might be that this is short for "sodomise", but I would look around<br>for other explanations first. The idea that it's a truncation would
<br>suggest that these phrases started out as "Sodomise them!" and I haven't<br>come across any such examples.<br><br>In British usage, "bugger" and "sod" have lost whatever sexual<br>connotations they might have had in everyday swearing, and are very
<br>mild, humorous terms unless used with some sort of tonality to indicate<br>otherwise.<br><br>What about the north of England usage "beggar" as in "You silly beggar"<br>etc? Could "bugger" have evolved from this or was it the other way
<br>round?<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/
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