dirty words in dictionaries revisted

[Wilson Gray]

On Dec 17, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> Literature has preserved at least one 18th C "pee" from Britain. If it
> was chiefly a child's term, it could easily have gone
> unrecorded/unfound for 150 years.  The matter may not be resolvable.
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> JL

Needless to say. The French still say "faire pipi" to this day,
probably just to urinate off Dubya.

-Wilson Gray

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> Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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> Of course. Now I see what you mean. In fact, FWIW, even as recently as
> the time of my own childhood, the form used was "(to) peepee" and not
> simply "(to) pee."
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> -Wilson Gray
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> On Dec 17, 2004, at 11:27 AM, Baker, John wrote:
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>> No, I mean that they would have gotten the pun, even though
>> "pee" did not yet mean urinate.
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>> John Baker
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>> On Dec 17, 2004, at 11:08 AM, Baker, John wrote:
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>>> Might "P's" have been understood by an Elizabethan audience as
>>> simply "piss," and not "pees"?
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>>> John Baker
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>> In other words, such an audience wouldn't have gotten the pun?
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>> -Wilson Gray
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