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#42432 09/23/01 03:42 AM
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didn't that used to be spinster? and isn't now career woman? do we have any better choices?

Well, I know the word spinster fell out of use some time in the '70s. Career woman is *never used here. You can say a woman has a careet in sales or some other job but she is never refered to as a career woman.

A woman that is not married is 'single' (célibataire in French)

We don't have a word for the residence of a woman living alone like men do with bachelor appartment.

The term 'bachelor' in French refers to an appartment (flat) that has a bathroom, a bedroom, a kitchen and a living room. We call that a "three and a half".


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Oldies, but goodies: Does a chicken have lips? Does it snow in Siberia in the winter? Does a tree falling in the woods make a sound?


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My vote for what to call a single woman-GODDESS
I guess I know now what to call my new place. It's a 3 1/2.


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It seems live ages ago that of troy said, "a bust? is that the wrong part of the anatomy? isn't this thread about an out house?"

Helen, there's a phylogenic connection between bust and butt. Note that the human species is unique in these two respects:
1) walks in an upright position (even for the other species of apes, this is not their primary posture), and
2) has, between the male and female of the species, significant differencein the appearance of the (ahem) mammalia.

Those two uniquenesses are not unrelated, in evolutionary (phylogenic) terms.

Aside to tsuwm: am I correct in assuming that the linguistic similarity of the terms "bust" and "butt" is merely coincidental?



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am I correct in assuming that the linguistic similarity of the terms "bust" and "butt" is merely coincidental?

in a word, yes.


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"Crib" is a very common word in the Australian mining industry - courtesy of our Cornish forbears.....

Whist the Zilders' use of the word for a holiday house and the mining version no doubt have the same roots, I've often wondered whether the "crib (ie lunch) room" on a mine site (either underground or on the surface) derives from the old time miners' passion for cribbage, the card game?
The term is used in several contexts on a site. For instance, one's lunch is also referred to as one's crib - to be consumed at crib time.

By the by, I made a happy link to the past when I found a home made cribbage board at Kanowna, 19km NE of Kalgoorlie in 1987. It had been carved from the side of a dynamite box sometime between 1902 and 1920 (worked this out by knowing when the mine whose dump I found it in had been operating).

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<<In conjunction with BelM's early reminder that outhouses are chattel, not real estate, Keiva's statement "built substantially beyond the norm" yields this possibility:

"built like a brick outhouse" suggests something not just built beyond the norm, but so much so as to be impractical or, even, ridiculous. In which case, many a dot.com might well be said to have been a brick and mortar business.


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<<In conjunction with BelM's early reminder that outhouses are chattel, not real estate, Keiva's statement "built substantially beyond the norm" yields this possibility:

"built like a brick outhouse" suggests something not just built beyond the norm, but so much so as to be impractical or, even, ridiculous. In which case, many a dot.com might well be said to have been a brick-and -mortar business.


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