I can't really say it helped much... Well for Christ's sake, I'm not sure how we could have found ANYTHING in that article inappropriate or offensive, considering the sloppy censoring that took place. It felt like a regular crossword puzzle - "Four letter word that rhymes with hunt." Added to that, it really wasn't very explanitory at all as far as a lot of the words were concerned - there were several nice possible etymlogical references, but it was all just a lot of speculation. Looks as if nobody at the Beeb knows where these words come from either. :smt082 I'm still as confused as ever at the tendency for the more vulgar nouns to be easily adapted to verb usage, as well. :smt009
hmmm i think it was an intresting article because i didn´t know the thing about sod , damn those people were just gay men :-/ :-( i don´t want to say what i know about the queen of that time in England so i will shut my mouth up. Instead of being a stupid twat.
Catch yoU Next Tuesday is one I just found about about today. Don't know if it was in the article. (Too bloody long to read.)
this one came up when we were discussing over the origin of "F" "U" "C" "K" during lunch break. some said it's acronym for For Unlawful Canal Knowledge... so we did bit of digging and came up this BBC article... looks like the jury is still out...
Class. I work near Threadneedle (bizarrely where the bank of england now is...a different kind of shafting going there methinks), and lived just up from Magpie when at uni
nice link but maybe I'm simply not in the mood as I nearly fell asleep trying t o scan it through and all, and I slept 12 hours recently but it was ruggish sleep so that could be to blame too.
The interesting thing about the article, now that I've managed to reread it (dry doesn't begin to describe it) is the reference to the poem Pippa Passes by Robert Browning in the section on the word "Twat." Fans of a certain anime might recognize Pippa Passes as being the original source of the phrase, "God's In His Heaven, All's Right With The World."
