MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Scot LaFaive]

I appear to be the only one who considers it "mom" not "mother."



>From: James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)
>Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 22:29:39 -0400
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>Subject:      Re: MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)
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>OK, I've polled a bunch of people I know (they're all on a private
>email list for off-colour humour), and it seems I've identified the
>prime vector for MILF: the movie _American Pie_ got mentioned as the
>source by the majority of respondents. So now the thing to do would
>be to find out what the writers had in mind and where they got it
>from.
>
>I wasn't able to phrase a question in such a way as to elicit a
>theory of a phrase without suggesting the phrase. So now I'll ask
>them all directly.
>
>Incidentally, more of them said it stood for "mother" than for "mom".
>One, an Australian, said it stood for "mummy" -- and he mentioned
>_American Pie_ as the source.
>
>Alas, I haven't seen _American Pie_, great cultural moment though it
>is. And I doubt my wife will want it to be the next DVD we rent.
>
>James Harbeck.
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