Comments | jen_nsync_landl: Huh. I didn't know they used that word in 1616!

jen_nsync_landl

Huh. I didn't know they used that word in 1616!

Jul 01, 2010 08:39

Comments 15

enigmaticblues July 1 2010, 14:49:56 UTC

LOL! Oh, that's highly amusing.

jen_nsync_landl July 1 2010, 16:39:33 UTC

I know! I gasped aloud when I saw it, much to the amusement of my film reading neighbors - they were no doubt covetous of *my* stuff (I was going to say "my goodies," but that sounds a bit too much like a euphemism! *snort*)

angearia July 1 2010, 14:57:34 UTC

Hee! Oh, dirty, dirty Elizabethans!

My, my, we are tempting you with our luscious fic, no?

jen_nsync_landl July 1 2010, 16:40:22 UTC

You are! You are evil, with your thousands of words...and your Spuffiness!

Back, demon!

readerjane July 2 2010, 03:33:42 UTC

I think your icon just put me into a state.

Am browsing with my iPhone, waiting for the fam to GO TO BED and stop interrupting me so I can enjoy the new barbverse!!

jen_nsync_landl July 2 2010, 14:22:40 UTC

LOL I read this in my Yahoo! mail and couldn't for the life of me remember which icon I'd slapped in there. Then I came here and said, "Ahhh."

;)

snickfic July 1 2010, 16:31:08 UTC

Could you remind me what you area of research is? I feel as though I've been told, but I have forgotten.

jen_nsync_landl July 1 2010, 16:43:16 UTC

I'm a Tudor/Stuart social historian; my research involves courtship and marriage in northwest England in the eight decades before the civil wars (how's that for precise?! LOL We academics carve out our little niches, that's for sure). This trip has me looking at microfilm defamation suits to try to uncover broader social and interpersonal relationships within which to situate matrimonial formation and rupture.

It's such good stuff! :)

[I am Nerd!Girl - hear me roar!]

snickfic July 1 2010, 17:38:00 UTC

You realize that the next time I'm writing a story involving northwestern English Tudor/Stuart courtship rituals, I'm going to come bothering you. (You laugh! But I accidentally end up writing about lots of things I don't expect...)

jen_nsync_landl July 1 2010, 18:06:50 UTC

I await your questions!

I actually got "courtship" on my schmoop_bingo card - I'll have to see what I can do to get Spuffy courting sixteenth-century style.

Oo, I just had a notion...

It'll be totally obscure, but that might be half the fun. ;)

*ponders*

Thread 5

deborahw37 July 1 2010, 17:02:28 UTC

Oh yeah

There's a street in London which was called Gropecunt lane until the Victorians had conniptions and called it Grape lane.

And Pillock is a lovely word

jen_nsync_landl July 1 2010, 17:36:02 UTC

Excellent anecdote, my dear! :) [And coupled with a highly amusing icon!]

And what's up with LJ not letting me know about comments? *grumble*

brutti_ma_buoni July 1 2010, 18:20:55 UTC

Darn, someone got in before me with Gropecunt Lane...

Sentences you never expected to type: I knew about cunt, so I'm actually more interested in pillock. Didn't realise that was yet another modern word for 'stupid man' that comes from miscellaneous penis-euphemisms. (Or, I'm assuming that was what he wanted to show her. Not his pet twerp.)

jen_nsync_landl July 1 2010, 18:37:34 UTC

Or, I'm assuming that was what he wanted to show her. Not his pet twerp.

And with this pair of phrases, my humor quota for the day is now met. ;)

Yes, it's a penis-ism. The first deponent actually avoided the c & p talk and very modestly described the parties' "privities." It was the three subsequent witnesses who used more specific language, and as the whole thing revolves around fornication, it's clear this was a case of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours"...in the downstairs parlor of a lodging house. Hmmm.

And from the OED s.v. pillock:

1. orig. Sc. The penis. Now Eng. regional (north.) and rare.

1568 D. LINDSAY Satyre (Bannatyne) 1491 in Wks. (1931) II. 388 Me think my pillok will not ly doun.