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Getting back to extra-marital sex...

In the 1860's, 1/3 of brides walking down the aisle in North-East Scotland were pregnant.

(Source: 'A Century of the Scottish People' by TC Smout)

Oh...and comes from the Old Dutch, 'ficken', meaning 'to strike'.

And while I'm at it...the word commonly used for a cute was used for (ahem) the other warm, furry thing that purrs when it's stroked. It's a diminutive of 'purse'. It came to be used by analogy for a , not vice-versa.

Do you get my drift?

"Oh...and comes from the Old Dutch, 'ficken', meaning 'to strike'."

The etymology is uncertain. There are several possible Germanic roots along those lines (striking, rubbing, having sex), however.

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You are quite right. I should have said it is *related* to 'ficken'.

My favourite word for the act is Robert Burns's 'houghmagandie'.

'Haw, hen...fancy a wee spot of houghmagandie?'
'Och, you've talked me into it, you sweet-talking b*****d.'

Nice one.

If only life were like that!

You mean it isn't? You mean you're not really a bonobo?

I'm a bonobo manquée, not a bonobo monkey.

I learned a new word.

>>And while I'm at it...the word commonly used for a cute was used for (ahem) the other warm, furry thing that purrs when it's stroked. It's a diminutive of 'purse'. It came to be used by analogy for a , not vice-versa.<<

The word coney, meaning rabbit and now pronounced with a long o, used to be pronounced to rhyme with the similarly spelled money. As in bunny.The other warm furry thing that..

Likely the source idea for the Python sketch, the man who couldn't pronounce the letter c.

Silly bunt

~*~Maybe, and I'm sorry if I've offended you, but you came across as pedantic and arrogant.~*~

I fail to see how. Freely volunteering information about sexism through history is not pedantic or arrogant. THIS would have been pedantic and arrogant:

***Paragraph Deleted by Moderators Because it Serves Too Well as an Example***
***Suffice it to Say That the /Example/ Was Sufficiently Pedantic and Arrogant***

There, see? See how [the example] shows complete disdain for your intelligence and education? Did I do that? No.



*Decides to leave it alone if Mr. Dreadful will.*

Well, life's too short isn't it. I could drag this out and dissect your post and tell you exactly why I read it the way I did but ultimately it would achieve nothing except making both of us more annoyed.

No hard feelings, eh?

Fair enough.

Here's a useless fact: In 2-and-a-half hours I will go to my teacher's other class in order to see what, exactly, I got wrong on my Biology test.

'Sega' means 'w*nker' in Italian. An Italiano word for shag is 'trombare'. Just think of how a trombonist (?) plays if you can't see why.

'Fennel' (or 'finnochio') is Italian for 'homosexual'). After the practice of burning homosexuals alive on a pile of fennel twigs.

In 'The Sopranos' it's rendered in dialect as 'finouche'.

>>An Italiano word for shag is 'trombare'.

I can't help but think of 'Playing the pink trombone'

'La trombone' is French for 'paperclip'. And the French for 'Post-It Note (tm)' re-translates as 'Adhesive, repositionable butterfly'.

Oh...and the mother of Mike Nesmith of The Monkees invented Tip-Ex.

Close, but not quite. Bette Nesmith Graham invented "correction fluid", originally sold under the name "Mistake Out" (1951), then after improving the formula as "Liquid Paper" (1956).

The Tipp-Ex company originally made correction paper but began producing correction fluid in 1965.


Mike Nesmith and his mother are fellow Texans so I take the story seriously.

SAVE THE TEXAS PRAIRIE CHICKEN!

I've just gone back and corrected my last post. Now I've got Tipp-Ex (or correction fluid) all over my screen.

Didn't 'happy' Italians wear fennel or summit?

"First, finocchio for “homosexual” is only attested from about 1863. That raises an immediate problem for the heretic-burning theory"

http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/814/

Fairy Nuff. The Italians I've spoken to certainly believe the pyres theory...but then again - many English speakers believe the posh = Port Out Starboard Home pish.

(Far mor likely that 'posh' came from 'pusha', = 'money' in Romani)