Re: Re[4]: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

I knew a very wealthy Priscilla whose nickname was Pussy. This was
pronounced without so much as a smile in a select group of citizens.

As for Dick, no. But Richard would be acceptable.

There was actually a time when people heard [dik] that thought Richard.


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts


> Would you name your daughter Pussy? or your son Dick?
>
> --- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> > I think that has little to do with their frequency.
> >
> > More pertinent are factors like novelty, uniqueness,
> > what the current batch
> > of "stars" have as first names. From the language I
> > regularly hear from
> > respectable people, there are few taboos left
> > against using sexual
> > terminology.
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> > To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:19 PM
> > Subject: Re[4]: [tied] Languages Evolve in
> > Punctuational Bursts
> >
> >
> > > At 5:10:00 PM on Thursday, February 7, 2008,
> > Patrick Ryan
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > What do Dick and Peter or pussycat have to do
> > with word
> > > > taboos?
> > >
> > > The first two are slang for 'penis'; 'pussycat'
> > contains
> > > 'pussy', slang for 'vulva'.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
>
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