[Ads-l] [Non-DoD Source] Re: Facebookery: _huzzies_ "hussies" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (USA)]

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Didn't Aunt Esther, on Sanford & Son, refer to other women as "shameless hussy"?


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> by US law (enacted in 1950), the word "hussy" is not permitted in public unless accompanied by "brazen".  the law is silent on the /s/ vs. /z/
> matter.
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> arnold the collocator
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