random taboo avoidance (UNCLASSIFIED)

Tue Nov 29 21:03:42 UTC 2011

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> Victor Steinbok
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> Subject: Re: random taboo avoidance
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> It could have been "barnshoot"--if it's pronounced as
"'barnsh at d'art at st"
> in Scotland. The accent was too thick for me to hear the difference.
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>      VS-)
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> On 11/29/2011 1:11 PM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
> > On 11/29/2011 12:01 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >> For collectors of alliterative taboo avoidance phrases:
> >>
> >> In the episode The Naming of the Dead of Season 3 of the show
Rebus, set
> >> in Edinburgh, one of the characters refers to his cousin as "a
barnshed
> >> artist"
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> > Cf. "barnshoot" ... but maybe just coincidence?
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> > -- Doug Wilson
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