Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!

[Mark Mandel]

Which indicates that the "monosyllable" they referred to was "cunt", which
indeed *is* a monosyllable, rather than the trisyllabic "vagina"  or
"pudendum" -- or, to be anatomically correct, the bisyllabic "vulva".

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> 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
> >
> >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"?
> >>
> >>  --Charlie
> >>
> >>  ________________________________________
> >>  From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of
> >>  Jonathan Lighter [wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM]
> >>  Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:26 AM
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> >>
> >>  Pronounced the same as _S#*!_ ?
> >>
> >>  No kidding, if people do start saying (*Beep!*) to euphemize certain
> >>  monosyllables, it will have become a phoneme of English.
> >>
> >>  A very bizarre one, but a phoneme nonetheless.
> >>
> >>  And if not a phoneme, what?
> >>
> >>  JL
> >>
> >>  On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> >>  > Poster:       Margaret Lee <mlee303 at YAHOO.COM>
> >>  > Subject:      Re: Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>
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> >>  >
> >>  > Similar to the title of the weight-loss dance show on Oxygen, _Dance
> Your
> >>  > A=
> >>  > ** Off_.
> >>  > =A0
> >>  > Margaret Lee
> >>  >
> >>  > ________________________________________
> >>  >
> >>  > --- On Wed, 7/21/10, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  > 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
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  > In one neat package:
> >>  >
> >>  > http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/20/my-dad-said-ptc/
> >>  >
> >>  > 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
> >>  >
> >>  > JL
> >>  >
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