MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Baker, John]

        American Pie, the 1999 movie that brought "milf" to a broad
audience, used "mom," but most of the pre-American Pie cites on Google
Groups use "mother."


John Baker


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Subject: Re: MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

>For me, I think I've heard MILF spoken out almost exclusively as "mom"
>not "mother."

I find this interesting. It's not my experience -- rather the opposite.
And I had always assumed that it was a phrase modelled on the venerable
"motherfucker."

A Google poll gets me 32,500 for full-phrase "mother i'd like to fuck"
and 11,700 for "mom i'd like to fuck"; {"mom i'd like to" MILF} gets
13,800, and {"mother i'd like to" MILF} gets 32,700, meaning that there
are more instances where the vulgarity is left out of the explanation
that use "mom" than that use "mother", but otherwise "mother" is roughly
triple "mom".

James Harbeck.

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