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Article #5113Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
From: elizabeth
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:10
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:10
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On 9 Mar, 04:52, "Peter Farey" <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> wrote: > <benli...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > > > elizabeth wrote: > > > > O was bawdy Elizabethan for orgasm. > > > You have some evidence of this? It seems unlikely, given > > that OED does not record "orgasm" at all in English until > > some decades after Shakespeare's death, and then only in > > the sense of a violent spasm. > > You must understand that, being English, we refrained from > any such practice until someone like Bob Grumman invented > a word for it. Had we nevertheless shame-facedly contrived > to produce any such condition we would naturally have > referred to it onomatopoeically. > > Peter F. > <pete...@rey.prestel.co.uk> > <http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/index.htm> That's way too witty for HLAS.
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