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Re: Fornicating Under Consent of King

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Post by dorchadas » Fri, Aug 06, 2021, 11:47 PM UTC

rusk wrote: post #78

dorchadas wrote: post #69

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Yeah, it was borrowed from Anglo-Norman.

Which is about as close to modern English as modern Irish is.

Yep. In fact, depending on which classification scheme of the Indo-European languages you follow, it could be argued it's closer to Irish than it is to English (Italo-Celtic branching). But I was just agreeing that it did come from, essentially, a dialect of French.

Re: Fornicating Under Consent of King

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Post by dredmorbius » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 1:03 AM UTC

FabHK wrote: post #50

dredmorbius wrote: post #22

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Whilst we're taking and making suggestions, the Online Etymological Dictionary, a true gem of the Internet: https://www.etymonline.com/ (Donations welcomed and encouraged. No affiliation, just a very satisfied user.)

Searchable from DuckDuckGo with the !ety bang.

Among my most-used. (Along with !w and !hn)

Re: Fornicating Under Consent of King

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Post by morpheos137 » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 1:10 AM UTC

I my opinion people who believed this spurious etymology were just dumb. For example why would the king care if you fornicate and if he did why would he grant consent? Unbeliveable.

Re: Fornicating Under Consent of King

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Post by zeckalpha » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 11:30 AM UTC

DonaldFisk wrote: post #70

zeckalpha wrote: post #65

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India has many languages other than Hindi. A similarly spelled word comes from Urdu for example https://www.etymonline.com/word/khaki

That might conceivably explain the "khazi" spelling but its meaning is unrelated and in any case it isn't the derivation of the word "carsey". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari

Sure, I just meant you can’t rule out the theory because you talked to a Hindi speaker.

Re: Fornicating Under Consent of King

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Post by srean » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 1:18 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #15

srean wrote: post #14

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Help out a non English speaker if you can. What vulgar associations ? EDIT: Thanks, all who responded. I wouldn't have made the connection although I am quite familiar with the 'vulgar' word in question. The phonetic similarity sounds farfetched to me, one ends with a hard consonant, the other with a vowel sound.

Sounds like "cunny" = "cunt". Responding to your edit: > EDIT: Thanks, all who responded. I wouldn't have made the connection although I am quite familiar with the 'vulgar' word in question. The phonetic similarity sounds farfetched to me, one ends with a hard consonant, the other with a vowel sound. It's not that "coney" sounds like "cunt". It doesn't. It's that it sounds like "cunny", which is a diminutive form of…

Oh I wasn't comparing coney and cunt. To me even cunny and cunt seems quite far apart, admittedly not familiar with the diminutive or adjective form. Thanks all for the education in the colorful English vernacular (I mean that with sincerity, I can well imagine getting into a tough spot by dropping the word 'coney')