MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Wilson Gray]

Well, she was known as "Stifler's Mom." BTW, has "motherfucker," while
i was sleeping, become the integral part of white speeech that it is
of black speech, such that it would serve as the basis for new slang?

-Wilson

On 4/30/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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>         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."
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> John Baker
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> >For me, I think I've heard MILF spoken out almost exclusively as "mom"
> >not "mother."
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> 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".
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> James Harbeck.
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