Re: Brugmann's Law

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> In American English it's very much alive in the spoken
> language. I've heard the word as an insult all my
> life. It's up there with bitch, skank, skag and slut
> and dialect ho' and beotch.

Danish 'hore' is Biblical only; the corresponding verb (meaning
"fornicate") is pretty conmmon. Sw. 'hora' is the standard expression,
but is now also used increasingly derogatorily.


Torsten