I read from Burchfield:
"In a dictionary of 1785 compiled by one Frances Grose
it was euphemistically called the 'monosyllable' and
printed as 'c__t'. Grose's definition - "a nasty word
for a nasty thing".
--- Was she, then, Fregean?
Etc.
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