MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[James C Stalker]

How about "yummy mummy"?

JCS

Scot LaFaive writes:

> For me, I think I've heard MILF spoken out almost exclusively as "mom" not
> "mother."
>
> Scot LaFaive
>
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>> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:52:24 -0400
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>> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>> > At 9:48 AM -0700 4/26/07, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
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>> >> "FILF" (for use by women and gay men) has been coined on the model of
>> >> "MILF".
>>
>> > One of my students submitted "DILF" in her New Words Journal in '03,
>> > overheard during Visiting Weekend at Yale.  Seems less likely to be
>> > misparsed ("Hey, look at that FILF!").
>>
>> FWIW, i've heard/read DILF before, but never FILF. DILF seems to be more
>> parallel, since MILF/FILF would require a mother/father distinction, but
>> whenever i've heard MILF broken down in full, it's always begun with
>> mom, not mother.
>>
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James C. Stalker
Department of English
Michigan State University

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