MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:30 PM -0400 4/30/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
>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

and if it has, can we blame it on Samuel L.?

LH

>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."
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>>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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