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Twat and Queynte are fine too as they are completely inoffensive to AmericansOriginally posted by DimPrawn View PostLast edited by Bagpuss; 19 December 2008, 13:29.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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It should be Queynte...Originally posted by SallyAnne View Post
****’s literary appearance is as the Middle English word queynte in Chaucer’s ‘The Miller’s Tale’. Queynte has other meanings – sly, extinguished or an elegant, pleasant place, which is just the prudish American English professor’s euphemism for the word ‘****’.
Fil with this yonge wyf to rage and pleye,
Whil that hir housbonde was at Oseneye –
As clerkes ben ful subtil and ful queynte –
And prively he caughte hire by the queynte
The tiptoe-around-the-whole-issue translation is:
Fell in with this young wife to toy and play,
The while her husband was down Osney way,
Clerks being as crafty as the best of us;
And unperceived he caught her by the puss,
A closer translation might be:
Fell in with this young wife to fool around and play
While her husband was in Oseneye
As clerks are clever and crafty
He secretly grabbed her by the ****.
When and, more importantly, why did a word that was used in books, medical texts and on street signs for goodness sake become the most vulgar word that one can utter in the English language? Why did the word cock, meaning penis, enter the dictionary in the 1930s, but Americans had to wait until 1961 for **** to appear in Webster’s Dictionary, while Brits had to wait until 1972 for it to get into the OED? It’s a damned old word. Why could it have taken so long to be recognised? Could have anything to do with Francis Grose’s Classical Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue, written in 1796 he wrote that the word ‘****’ is “a nasty name for a nasty thing”.Last edited by Bagpuss; 19 December 2008, 13:34.The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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I am pleased that at the moment the mods are extremely busy so you are unlikely to be caught.Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
Interestingly NF offered cuk the chance of introducing a proper swear filter : they really should take him up on it.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
Are they on the CUK Moderators piss-up? I bet that's a barrel of laughs.
Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
Feist - I Feel It All
Feist - The Bad In Each Other (Later With Jools Holland)Comment
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nah it must be a thread on tourettesOriginally posted by PAH View PostAre they on the CUK Moderators piss-up? I bet that's a barrel of laughs.Comment
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Originally posted by PAH View PostAre they on the CUK Moderators piss-up? I bet that's a barrel of laughs.
nope, i think we're all here...!Comment
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