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In article <wHfcO.155174$9d96.144774@fx01.ams4>,
Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:On 6/18/2024 04:58, The Last Doctor wrote:
and an archaic
In actual English, that is, in the English used in the England that
developed and still evolves the core version of the language, “*” has
three well-known meanings : an informal term for a cigarette (“get us a
packet of *s while you’re at the shops mate”), to become fatigued (“I
can’t go on. I’m *ged” - this one derives from “fatigue”)term for younger boys at public school who essentially valeted for theterm for
older boys (“Venables Junior was the Honorable Tim EntitledAndDim’s * at
Eton”).
Other meanings may have originated in the colonies but they are not in
common use in the U.K. and I’m not from any of those upstart neo-states.
None of the usages in English (as opposed to the bastard child American
English) is swearing. Oh, and a “*got” is either a meatball or bundle of
sticks to be used as a flaming torch. Also not rude, though the contents of
the meatball are often pretty disgusting (warning - often contains offal).
I used to think they had cow brains in them as well when I was a child, but
it transpired that was just the brand name (Google “Brains Faggots”).
A “* packet estimate” is a perfectly ordinary and common Englishan outline solution simple enough to be written on the back of a torn open
cigarette box (twenty’s, typically), for instance when bringing about an
end to world poverty in the pub over the third pint.
We can take this out of the English language as well. In German, the
musical instrument we know as a Bassoon is known as a....*got.
Homosexuals will be disgusted.
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