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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 'cunt' obviously didn't have the same public offensive meaning in those days - a refreshing honest approach I suppose.

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.

Vagina's for yer intellectuals...to the common man it'll always be a cunt!