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Post by aubrey on Oct 7, 2020 16:34:38 GMT
All* words change, or else the way we see them changes. C**t was a neutral word at one time, not offensive. Roads called things like "Grape Lane" were once called Gropec**t Lane. It only became a "bad" word later.
*Well, maybe not all. Here's a mini lecture by Kate Lister: (It won't share as a video)
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Post by ARENA on Oct 17, 2020 7:37:47 GMT
'Rude' words were adopted by the Victorians to eliminate blasphemy like ,gods teeth etc.
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Post by aubrey on Oct 17, 2020 10:18:20 GMT
"Corridors of Power" is now used to denote Whitehall and Parliament, but the phrase originally meant anywhere power is found, from country houses and boardrooms to villas off Clapham Common and the clubs of St James: Whitehall and Parliament as well, but definitely not only that.
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Post by althea on Nov 11, 2020 16:59:33 GMT
'Rude' words were adopted by the Victorians to eliminate blasphemy like ,gods teeth etc. The French do something similar by using bleu instead of Dieu. For example "cochon bleu."
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Post by althea on Nov 11, 2020 17:00:55 GMT
I was wondering yesterday if ruck is a local word or widely used, to mean a plie or heap of things. My tights all came out of the laundry bag and got mixed up in a ruck.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 11, 2020 17:45:58 GMT
I was wondering yesterday if ruck is a local word or widely used, to mean a plie or heap of things. My tights all came out of the laundry bag and got mixed up in a ruck.
I thought it was from Rugby (the game, not the town).
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Post by ARENA on Nov 12, 2020 7:26:19 GMT
I was wondering yesterday if ruck is a local word or widely used, to mean a plie or heap of things. My tights all came out of the laundry bag and got mixed up in a ruck. Quite a common usage in my Scottish dialect, as in, 'your shirts all rucked up at the back'
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