magoo wrote:
> Magpie Lane in London was for many years called Cunt Grope Lane.
Gropecunt Lane.
'Fanny' reeks of the playground [don't take that literally]. It's just too
cutesy-poo. Like 'willy' instead of cock or dick.
The Word Vagina
Re: The Word Vagina
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."
Re: The Word Vagina
The word 'cunt' obviously didn't have the same public offensive meaning in those days - a refreshing honest approach I suppose.
Re: The Word Vagina
I'm not sure why it became taboo, but apparently it was sufficiently so in
Elizabethan England for Shakespeare to feel able to refer to it only in a
roundabout fashion.
Elizabethan England for Shakespeare to feel able to refer to it only in a
roundabout fashion.
"a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the
signification...."
signification...."
Re: The Word Vagina
Vagina's for yer intellectuals...to the common man it'll always be a cunt!