Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:52 AM -0400 7/22/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Partly correct.  They merely listed a million synonyms under the entry
>"monosyllable,"

for which they provide the elegant gloss

(venery).--The female pudendum; CUNT (q.v.)

[Vol IV, pp. 336-45, although several of these pages are devoted to
synonyms in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Walloon.]

LH

>  a euphemism for the trisyllabic "vagina."
>But they were all
>synonyms for that, not any other monosyllables.
>
>JL
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>On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>>  I am reminded (somehow):  Didn't Farmer and Henley treat a wide range of
>>  "taboo" words (of whatever length) under the heading "monosyllable"?
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>>  --Charlie
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>>  Pronounced the same as _S#*!_ ?
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>>  No kidding, if people do start saying (*Beep!*) to euphemize certain
>>  monosyllables, it will have become a phoneme of English.
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>>  A very bizarre one, but a phoneme nonetheless.
>>
>>  And if not a phoneme, what?
>>
>>  JL
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>>  On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>  > Similar to the title of the weight-loss dance show on Oxygen, _Dance Your
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>>  > Margaret Lee
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>>  > --- On Wed, 7/21/10, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>  > From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>>  > Subject: Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!
>>  > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>  > Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 7:32 PM
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>>  >
>>  > In one neat package:
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>>  > http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/20/my-dad-said-ptc/
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>>  > I just saw a promo on CBS, and indeed the pronunciation is the familiar
>>  > electronic sound. IPA symbol?
>>  > The oddest development since "Cholmondelay" went "Chumley."
>>  >
>>  > Much more here, including Cap'n Kirk's sociolinguistic brain-teaser:
>>  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_My_Dad_Says
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>>  > JL
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