Q: soixante neuf (UNCLASSIFIED)

Thu Oct 29 21:02:18 UTC 2009

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Does this have anything to do with a particular page #/position in the
Kama Sutra?  Did it come from the rotationally symmetric appearance of
the digits 6 and 9?  Is soixante neuf older than the English
"sixty-nine" (meaning the same thing)?

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> How far back does "soixante neuf" ("Simultaneous cunnilingus and
> fellatio") go in English?  In French?  As early as Byron?
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> The OED has 1888.
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> Joel
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