Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 13, 2013, at 7:32 PM, David A. Daniel wrote:

> When you wake up in the morning with an erection, it's what the erection is
> called.

Small world, as confirmed by this comment on Anu Garg's Word a Day list (AWADmail Issue 563) this morning in response to yesterday's "Thought for Today", a line from Walt Whitman:

From: Grant Cribb (word cribb.me.uk)
Subject: Friday's Thought for Today

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

For those familiar with British slang, the image of Walt Whitman with a morning glory at his window is an arresting one indeed!

Grant Cribb, Harlington, UK
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Mr. Cribb's comment provided the link to:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morning_glory

which includes the Whitmanesque sense (and cites for it).  So according to Cribb, at least, the relevant usage is British.


LH

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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Morning Glory Road renamed due to sexual connotation
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> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:44 AM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
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>> Morning Glory
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> WTF *is* the sexual meaning of "morning glory." I know this term only as
> the name of a flowering climber so common in the Saint Louis of my youth as
> to be practically a weed and that's all.
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> -Wilson
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