Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Brugmann's Law

skag is more common in the Midwest from my experience.
I heard it all the time as a kid.
Skank is extremely common in the South --e.g. "She a
cash-money skank ho'!"
I suppose they probably come from the same root
--maybe related to "shank" i.e. "leg", but that's a
guess. Perhaps there's a Scots form like that


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 12:57:27 AM on Saturday, January 19, 2008, Rick
> McCallister wrote:
>
> > --- Richard Wordingham
> <richard@...>
> > wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> The word ['whore'] is pretty much literary in the
> circles
> >> I've moved in. [...]
>
> > In American English it's very much alive in the
> spoken
> > language.
>
> Overall, yes, but it depends on the circles in which
> one
> moves.
>
> > 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.
>
> I don't think that I've ever heard <skank> and
> <skag>,
> though I've encountered one and possibly both in
> print. I
> didn't hear <bitch> or <slut> used as a face-to-face
> insult
> until I was at least in my teens, though by then I'd
> probably already heard them used of someone who was
> not
> present. It wasn't until much later that I heard
> <whore> so
> used, and I don't recall noticing <ho'> until I came
> to
> Cleveland.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

____________________________________________________________________________________
Looking for last minute shopping deals?
Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping