Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site haring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!turing!haring!jim From: jim@haring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Origin of that strongest of words Message-ID: <310@haring.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Oct-84 01:13:58 EDT Article-I.D.: haring.310 Posted: Wed Oct 3 01:13:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 05:02:01 EDT References: <1536@uvacs.UUCP> <6046@mcvax.UUCP> <309@haring.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 11 Apparently-To: rnews@turing.LOCAL > One thing that complicates the theory is that the current slang word > for sexual intercourse is "neuken", and was in that time an accepted word. > It turned into slang later. Where I come from (Scotland), a slang word for sexual intercourse is 'nookie'. Gives more credence to the argument that English is just a bastardised form of Dutch. NOW I know what she was saying.... Jim McKie Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam mcvax!jim