Posted by Racer on May 6, 2005, at 13:02:38
In reply to Re: please be civil, posted by alexandra_k on May 6, 2005, at 12:01:51
Because the convicts had to eat pomegranates on the boats to prevent scurvy? That did sound a bit suspect to me, since I don't think of pommys as being all that common a fruit in the UK, especially as to be sent with a boatload of convicts?
Hm... I wonder if it's similar to that very much forbidden word for -- can't even think of a euphemism right now, but it's four letters long and starts with an F. There are all sorts of stories about it being based on an acronym, but it's not: it's based on an Anglo-Saxon verb that is related to the German "Ficken" and apparently meant "to plow"
See, I knew that linguistics class would be valuable one day :-D
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