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Article #5114Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford
From: Peter Farey
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:52
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:52
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<benlizro@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. <peter.f@rey.prestel.co.uk> <http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/index.htm>
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X-Google-Thread: 275bb0c91e,e31868f142332de6 X-Google-Attributes: gid275bb0c91e,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone02.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe27.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail From: "Peter Farey" <peter.f@rey.prestel.co.uk> Newsgroups: sci.lang,humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare References: <f756c0f3-dccb-4b35-aa17-e97bd516cb2a@o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <66a2884f-2f2e-4eaf-8ab4-71b3048f5e6c@t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> <f057c04f-cd8f-48fc-a519-dd0ac6fb41b8@v20g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> <08Tin.150363$yV6.121541@newsfe27.ams2> <f21d72a1-c587-43cc-8768-82c3d34cc2b0@33g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <3ad22590-944a-401c-930c-e5588a619dc3@q21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <61046262-061d-4980-8460-fdeb52d485fa@t41g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> <50883379-fc6e-4a35-b479-162f1feece1d@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <084439b0-b7bb-4de7-a099-20ead8a82f41@q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <d1d16518-5e63-4913-983e-4d7f63a413c9@o3g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <cd9cdf50-2dbc-4944-9958-f7d004d700c9@j27g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> <cd8a5033-88e1-4401-9616-9a23d56e747f@e1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <203cb9cf-b485-46b8-9110-60b27cf95011@z10g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <57e17629-efda-43fb-8836-2b39f7c9d18c@k18g2000prf.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <57e17629-efda-43fb-8836-2b39f7c9d18c@k18g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Proof that 'Shakespeare' was Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford Lines: 23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049 Message-ID: <Wvrln.264601$yV6.113818@newsfe27.ams2> NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.108.190.211 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe27.ams2 1268139126 81.108.190.211 (Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:52:06 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:52:06 UTC Organization: Tesco Usenet Service Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:52:08 -0000