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Re: euphemisms, or not

#63693 04/10/02 02:31 PM

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The etymology of some euphemisms are hard to discover. I have always remembered my mother referring to my penis when I was very small, just beginning to learn words, as my "bottee"
Only quite recently did I realize that it was a corruption of the the word for sausage "L. botulus".

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