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

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

> On Dec 21, 2018, at 12:44 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
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> CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
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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

scofflaw!

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