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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/01/2015 4:01 AM, Lowlands
Languages & Cultures wrote:<br>
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<div>No it is short for "a spoon of Tang" in southern. Breakfast
drink. What else could it be??😆</div>
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From French "putain." Word first appears 1910, but probably gained
currency during WWI.<br>
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Ed Alexander<br>
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