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Etymology Game
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9 members have voted
| August 15th, 2017 at 2:11:43 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | I will give an English word followed by the year it was first seen in writing. The game is you have to guess the year. Then look at the answer and post how close you got in the poll. As a clue the meaning of the word has not changed dildo 1593 |
| August 15th, 2017 at 3:01:07 PM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | missed big The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| August 15th, 2017 at 3:14:59 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
hehe...That's what she said. Who woulda thunk it? |
| August 15th, 2017 at 3:26:30 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | Shorter, though not shortened, words tend to be older than longer ones. In English in particular, words unrelated to Latin tend to also be older Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
| August 15th, 2017 at 3:39:47 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
Missed big also I will be impressed if somebody does not miss big but Poll is now a huge clue Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| August 15th, 2017 at 5:21:24 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | I was off by well over 200 years. When I was in Amsterdam last month I went to a museum of sex. Calling it a "museum" was a stretch as it was only about 1,000 square feet of miscellaneous sex-related art, objects, pictures, toys, and videos. It endeavored to cover various time periods and cultures but still had a disorganized feel to it. It probably will come as no surprise to anybody but there was some graphic stuff that dated back hundreds of years. I'm sure dildos have been around as long as there have been cucumbers and carrots but thought the term sounded like something out of the 1960's. Shows you what I know. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| August 15th, 2017 at 6:26:40 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | I was off by 75 years. I know a lot of the sexual words have been around for hundreds of years, they were a lot more obsessed with sex in Europe under the pope than they are now. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| August 15th, 2017 at 7:26:48 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4961 | I only missed by 300 years. I thought it was going to be a question about bugs (entomology).. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| August 15th, 2017 at 7:46:19 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Well I posed the question precisely because I thought most people would associate it with the sexual revolution of the 1960's. Most sexual words have uncertain origin. The word may be based on a Latin word, but nobody is sure. When research was done for the original versions of the Oxford English dictionary, the vulgar words were omitted. The " Fornication Under Consent of the King" is an old legend since no one really knows precisely where the word was derived. Shakespeare used a rather vulgar double entendre in Hamlet
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| August 15th, 2017 at 8:29:41 PM permalink | |
| kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4492 | 7 years since I thought it was probably Shakespearean "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |