Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Implicatures of Prick

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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