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Another post in this thread mentioned almost writing 'spay' in the wrong place. Actually, it goes here. It is not uncommon in the U.S. to speak of "taking the dog to be fixed" or to say, "my dog has been fixed," meaning, to be spayed or neutered.
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There's the french pox (venereal disease we now call it). I believe there is a corresponding French term which calls it the English pox....suggesting not just mutual recrimination, but mutual affection. 
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So, now I am wondering what the English and French terms are for "French kiss." Does anyone know?
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True? If so does the name refer to the magnification factor as in binoculars, Surely not the number of times.. no I won't ask.The polite explanation given in NZ is that Queenslanders can't spell "beer". 
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what the English and French terms are for "French kiss." 
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>what the English and French terms are for "French kiss."
French kiss
n. baiser (masc) profond
vt. embrasser sur la bouche (avec la langue)
vi. s'embrasser sur la bouche (avec la langue)
la langue = tongue
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...ahem... far, oh so very far, be it for me to be prudish, but... "rubbers" are equvalent to "galoshes" (I might be the only one
(my age (whatever that is)) left on this side of the pond to wear them)
I want my word back!!!This jogged a memory of 11th grade, lo these many years ago. The English text had a sentence in it as follows: "Why do boys detest wearing rubbers more than girls? With their superior strength, boys should be able to jerk rubbers on and off more expertly than girls. The real test, however, is putting rubbers on a squirming three-year-old. Girls are better at this than boys." Since the slang term for condoms had become "rubbers" by then (1961) we teenagers howled with laughter at this archaic bit of drivel. The following year the texts had been recalled, and "rubbers" rendered "overshoes." Why do I remember this passage verbatim from forty years ago when I can't even remember to comb my hair? Oh, that's right - I don't have any hair. Bad example. Oh, the mind does play tricks. 
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There's the french pox (venereal disease we now call it). I believe there is a corresponding French term which calls it the
English pox.
...suggesting not just mutual recrimination, but mutual affection.[/green/]
Thus you refer to your contagious girlfriend as the object of your infection?
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wow,
This just in...
>what the English and French terms are for "French kiss."
According to my dear wife, a French kiss is "un bec a la francais". Now this might be particular to the French area of northern Ontario she is from, but when I did a reverse search in my Larousse it lists bec as (fam Belg, Helv & Can) [baiser] kiss.
You didn't ask, but in German French kiss is:
n. französischer Kuß (ugs.); Zungenkuß, der
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I was thinking about this thread -- and realized condom--was not the first association i had with rubber-- (nor was eraser)
sometimes i "burn rubber"-- take off in "jack rabbit" start, with tires squealing--(and leave those middle age men in their new sports cars to eat my dust-- I drive 5 on the floor-- and have driven stick for 30 years...I know how to pop the clutch and get my little 4 cylinder engine into gear...)
or tell someone "that where the rubber meets the road"-- the place where action replaces talk
or "lay down rubber"-- exit and put some distance between myself and whatever
and while i don't often play cards-- if i did-- it would be an other rubber of gin.
while rubber can =condom, more often "trojians"=condoms (a specific brand)
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