<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 - 31 July 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_didimasure@hotmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Diederik Masure</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com">didimasure@hotmail.com</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;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I suppose it's not related to "bulgarus", but anyone knows why the
Battle of the Bulge isn't called the B. of the Ardennes or something
similar? Anyone know where this word "Bulge" comes from? </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<div><<<<br>As for "bugger," I am most inclined to follow
the school of thought that traces this word back to Bogolism, a
Bulgarian-centered collection of Christian sects that were maligned and
denigrated as heretics, and they were therefore accused of practising
all sorts of "inverse" things. Actually, the origin of the name is
nicely summarized in the Wikipedia: <br><br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">The name of the movement was </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">bulgarus</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> in Latin (meaning "Bulgarian"), which included
</span><a title="Paulician" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulician" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Paulicians</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
, </span><a title="Cathar" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathar" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Cathars</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">,
</span><a title="Patarene" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patarene" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Patarenes</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
and </span><a title="Albigenses" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigenses" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Albigenses</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
. It became </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">boulgre</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">, later </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">bougre</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> in </span><a title="Old French" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Old French</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> meaning "heretic, traitor". It entered </span><a title="German language" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
German</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> as </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Buger</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> meaning "peasant, blockhead" (and went on to English as </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
bugger</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">) and the French term also entered old </span><a title="Italian language" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Italian</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> as </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">buggero</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> and </span><a title="Spanish language" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Spanish </a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">as </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">bujarrón</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">,
both in the meaning of "sodomite", since it was supposed that heretics
would approach sex (just like everything else) in an "inverse" way. The
word went on towards </span><a title="Venice" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Venetian</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
Italian as </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">buzerar</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">, meaning "to do sodomy" (anal sex between men). This word entered German again (see </span><a title="Reborrowing" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborrowing" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
reborrowing</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">) as </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Buserant</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> and went on to </span><a title="Hungarian language" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_language" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Hungarian</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> as </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">buzeráns</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">, becoming </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">buzi</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">
around the 1900s, a form still in use as a </span><a title="Sexual slur" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_slur" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sexual slur</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> for male homosexuals. </span><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="ad"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">