eye dialect was RE: nekkid

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I don't think this is at all accurate. For one thing, I have seen "kum" in many gay publications, and not just "low-brow." more generally, I think that there is a tendency in some informal writing to differentiate between "kum" and "come" in parallel with such established pairs as "red" and "read."

Surely this has been commented on in one or another online dictionary?

By the way, "kum" is both a noun and a verb.

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On Mar 15, 2011, at 10:02 AM, "James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>"<JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> wrote:

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> If you ever see in print male ejaculate referred to as "kum", you can be sure you are reading a low-brow girlie magazine.
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