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"Not nice" !!!
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Kathlyn | Report | 3 Feb 2008 16:10 |
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I have the parish records for Aspley Guise in Bedfordshire and whilst going through it I found the following:- |
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KathleenBell | Report | 3 Feb 2008 16:16 |
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They certinly believed in "telling it like it is" in those days!!! |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 3 Feb 2008 16:31 |
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I saw parish records where the unmarried mother of a child had the word "whore" written next to her name and further down the page we had a "strumpet" |
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Glenys the Menace! | Report | 3 Feb 2008 16:38 |
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KathleenBell | Report | 3 Feb 2008 17:05 |
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It isn't really awful. The words have always had a proper meaning in the English language - and people used them with their proper meanings in those days. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 3 Feb 2008 18:32 |
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Perhaps we should bring some of these terms back into use, and stop pretending they don't exist. |
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