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"Not nice" !!!

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InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 3 Feb 2008 18:32

Perhaps we should bring some of these terms back into use, and stop pretending they don't exist.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 3 Feb 2008 17:05

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.

It's only nowadays that we use them as terms of abuse.

Kath. x

Glenys the Menace!

Glenys the Menace! Report 3 Feb 2008 16:38


Good grief, that's awful. :-((
x

Desperate Housewife ♥

Desperate Housewife ♥ Report 3 Feb 2008 16:31

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"
Vicar didn't mince his words then!

Karen x

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 3 Feb 2008 16:16

They certinly believed in "telling it like it is" in those days!!!

Kath. x

Kathlyn

Kathlyn Report 3 Feb 2008 16:10

I have the parish records for Aspley Guise in Bedfordshire and whilst going through it I found the following:-

1631 December 24th baptism of Alice, daughter of Peter & Agnes Crowley "an incestuos bastard"

Time have changed.

Kathlyn