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From: jbs@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: versatile word (ROT 13) - offensive to  (ROT13)
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 22:11:20 EDT
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Try "fornication under (the) consent of (the) king" from the middle ages.  
A reward given to kind servents and loyal knights.  Perhaps this
is an alternate history of the word which may explain its dual (at least)
role in English.  Perhaps this is just nonsense :-).

	Jeff Siegal - MIT EECS


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