" … the bedazzled _vaginas_ …"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wilson is technically correct, but in my experience this usage goes back at
least forty years.

JL

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> On Jul 6, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
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> >> I would have said "vagina."
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> > Really? Even though you know what the vagina is and where it's located?
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> Well, other than that, I could say, "bush," but it never occurred to me
> there was a separate non-vulgar word for that part. "Vulva" sounds Latin
> and technical, so I always assumed it was a synonym for "vagina."
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> But youneverknow
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> Benjamin Barrett
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