A History of the C-Word
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The History of Cunts
English was not the language of medical terminology anyway. It was Latin in Greek so anatomical terms usually are taken from the classical The standard international textbook of anatomical terms its total is Latin even there that makes sense Okay, and I guess that's when we talk about Anglo-Saxon words This delineation between what's high Latin French origin and kind of a guttural angle of Saxons cunts exactly Oh, so by the time we get to the 18th century it is offensive. Yeah, so this is the time when gross the slang LEXCOGGRAPHER His definition of it is a nasty word for a nasty thing. Well, they took out a lot of stuff to be
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