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Subject:Re: What the f -at- #$? From:Sally Marquigny <SALLYM -at- MSMAILHQ -dot- NETIMAGE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 27 Jul 1994 13:19:00 PDT
>There are lots of words in the English language that are Anglo-Saxon in
origin
>that are _not_ considered dirty ("dirty" itself is, not surprisingly, from
the
>French).
Really???? As you many know, the French word for "dirty" is "sale", accent
acute on the e, (which I am constantly reminded of by my French husband
because that's what my first name sounds like!). What is the actual origin
of "dirty"? "d'something"?
