Panocha and Panoltia

[Rudy V. Busto]

What a shock for a Chicano to open his email and see the "P" word in the 
subject line of the Nahuat-l list.  As a teenager I was led to believe that 
panocha as a vulgar term for female genitalia was not, as the Spanish 
etymology suggests, related to corn, but to the sweetness of the brown 
sugar which shares the same name.   Perhaps the cone shape of the sugar 
when it is manufactured is related to the "...vulgar Latin *panucula(m) 
referring to 'a millet spike'”.   And if so, it makes the whole affair a 
rather freudian fantasy.

Rudy Busto
UC-Santa Barbara

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