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May. 5th, 2010 04:45 pm
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Date: 2010-05-05 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twoeleven.livejournal.com
[x] no, but i did once convince somebody that the german for "brassiere" was "die bübengräber". :)

Date: 2010-05-05 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sconstant.livejournal.com
This comment reminds me of the song in the movie Beaches about inventor Otto Titsling and the industrial espionage of Philippe DeBrassiere.

Date: 2010-05-05 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lifecollage.livejournal.com
One of my great guilty pleasures, that song. Whee!

Date: 2010-05-05 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jbsegal.livejournal.com
I had no idea there'd been so MANY of them, mind you…

Date: 2010-05-05 10:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] signsoflife.livejournal.com
Funny, my compact OED doesn't even have an entry for "cunt", much less "Gropecunt" under it.

(There's a "cunt", but it redirects to "cont" and "count".)

Date: 2010-05-05 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] twoeleven.livejournal.com
huh! "cunt" is in the electronic shorter OED, with a note to the effect of "naughty word. very naughty word.".

Date: 2010-05-05 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keyne.livejournal.com
I am flabbergasted to find that cunt is apparently the medieval term for vulva. I'd always assumed that its current and historical usage referred to the vagina only, and had mourned the apparent lack of any Anglo-Saxon term for the vulva other than "pussy", which I detest.

Learn something new every day :)

Date: 2010-05-06 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreda.livejournal.com
It, along with "queynte" and variants, is the word for "bit you can grab", mostly. ;)

("And prively he caughte hire by the queynte...")

Date: 2010-05-07 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artricia.livejournal.com
Ah Chaucer. Forever linked in my mind with the naughty word.

Date: 2010-05-05 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chienne-folle.livejournal.com
On reading the question, I thought, "Isn't that a street in Ankh Morpork?"

I guess it isn't ... but it should be. :-)

Date: 2010-05-05 11:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] beah.livejournal.com
Hee: "See also: Tickle Cock Bridge"

Date: 2010-05-06 12:01 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tla
I lived on the one in Oxford (Magpie Lane today) during my first year in the UK.

Date: 2010-05-06 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] veek.livejournal.com
Makes me want to find the kitchen towel from Maidenhead, that I used to have. Don't know where that got off to.

Date: 2010-05-06 02:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spike.livejournal.com
Heh heh heh... you said "got off".... heh heh.

Date: 2010-05-06 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thoroughbass.livejournal.com
c.f. (http://thoroughbass.livejournal.com/135366.html)

Date: 2010-05-06 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thoroughbass.livejournal.com
Gosh! I just realized that was two years ago to the day!

Date: 2010-05-07 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moominmolly.livejournal.com
Why, hello, two years ago to the day!

Date: 2010-05-07 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] artricia.livejournal.com
So, is it real? "real"?
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