A History of the C-Word | Betwixt The Sheets

I've been warned enough already - please get on with upsetting me!

Not a word. It's an acronym. CAN'T UNDERSTAND NORMAL THINKING

As a pilot, to me, "undercarriage" means landing gear on an aircraft.

Rearrange the following words into a well known expression. “Cunning stunt.”

The other familiar expression from my youth concerning this word is, see you next Tuesday.

Cunt splice? Do I really need to google this?

good cuntext

"See you next tuesday" - is said to coppers on a daily basis 😁 And as an ex-soldier it was a very normal, standard word of everyday conversation for a whole range of meanings.

There used to be a road sign in Bath, called "Grope-Cunt Lane", it was where all the local prostitutes worked. I was shown it in the 1970s, but whether it has been replaced these days, i do not know. Interesting point where a word changes and becomes offensive, also, when it comes to insulting men, they can be called cunts and pricks, which are both parts, funny that. Great show, i personally agree that Kathy Burke was brilliant.

In a medical environment, in the UK, the tendency is to refer to “down below”

Australian here, many years ago we had a political party, the Country Party, that represented rural communities, farmers ,non city types etc.
Giving a speech, the politician says "I'm your Country member"
A fellow yells out, " Yes, I remember"

I've always been told that I'm a caring understanding nineties type of guy.

Can't Understand Normal Thinking

I seem to remember that the word appeared as coynt in the Unexpurgated Version of the 1001 Arabian Nights. It was a translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton.

The C is actually a knot tied by old time sailing ship sailors- the finishing end of folding back the splicing

In NZ it's a well used word. You can call someone a Good C, a Queer C, a Crazy C, or tell someone Don't be a C🥝🇳🇿😊

Seems incredibly simple to me. Cunt is Anglo-Saxon, when the Normans tipped up what would be more important in exercising control than reproduction?

Wide cunt isn't necessarily a derogatory term, it could mean Belle managed better with childbirth than most women & was affectionately admired for it.

Term of affection here here in New Zealand everybody says it don't give it offensive abhorrent power😂

Very interesting history! Thank you! 🌟

"Skank" is the dirisive American word for a slovenly female. I have heard the word "scunt" used by some women haters.

Years ago on BBC radio, there was a radio 'soap' about a farming community, called The Archers. The introductory announcement was "The Archers, an everyday story of country folk". If you were quick with the on/off swiitch, you could clip off the -ry folk, gving it a more accurate title!

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Very interesting and mature discussion, apart from the silly feminisms.

Anything connected with Rupert Murder has got to be highly questionable IMO

My brother owned a hobby farm in New Zealand near a celebrated ancient, giant Totara tree. He hung a beautiful carved and painted sign at his gateway. Rua Totera. Happy to show our father, who spoke Maori. He explained that maori, exploreing their new land, noted that where linbs had fallen from such trees, the scar looked like their wive's totera. He had named his farm, big cunt. He was over the moon.

In Middle English the word (see Chaucer) is “queinte” and refers to female genitalia. Easy transition to the modern word.

I’m from the US and mom is totally fine with all curse words except for the c-word. She finds it wildly offensive, which is funny because I care so little about it. I don’t use it very often at all though because I was raised like that

C U Next Tuesday

I'm American, but have been living in Sweden for some time. There is an equivalent word in Swedish, "fitta". It has the same meaning and can be used as a woman-to-woman insult. One time I heard a woman yelling outside the apartment complex where I lived. She was yelling "jävla fitta!" (more or less f-n c) and calling someone a whore. I managed to piece together that she was yelling at some other woman in the complex who had slept with her boyfriend. I guess that she blamed her for crossing that line. I have to assume (barring deeper knowledge) that the reason for using genitals as an insult (men can be called pricks) is to suggest that someone else is no more than genitals. It is denying full humanity and suggesting base impulses. But that is just my speculation.

Well educated explanations & commentry by a pair of cunning linguists.

One of my favorite verses from The Ball Of Kerrymuir was: "Miss Marry McPherson was standing way up front,
Some posies in her hand and a carrot in her cunt".

i use the word Bint.................same meaning, but a word no one knows in the USA

As a traditional seaman the space betweenthe swists of three or four layed line is called a cuntline.

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Haha, not sure how this feed came up for me, but very interesting. Also not sure how the extremely hilarious sketch came up for me of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore titled You F**king C*nt. It's eye watering hilarious.

A lot i have heard is rubbish the word cunt comes from the Roman times ,right the Romans invaded Britain early years , they bought with farming equipment called a sithe for cutting grass wheat oats etc,and a stone for sharpening the sithe along stone like a straight cucumber and a holder called cunt made of leather or pig skins ,it is 2400 years old may be longer in Roman times.

British soldiers to this very day still utilise the word ubiquitous....😊

On a works toilet cubicle wall years ago…’If Typhoo put the tea in Britain, who put the c**t in Scunthorpe?

Can't Understand Normal Thinking

A lesbian friend, twenty or so years ago, showed up to a concert in a t-shirt that said "Cunt Power."

AUNT? CAN'T?

I love the word. Use it quite often in conjunction with the F bomb

As a Londoner I really enjoyed this, I grew up with this as a part of everyday banter and having spent a lot of time amongst Celtic folk, just a really refreshing look at the use of language. American Beauty is an example of the use from one female to another in the modern age 😊

I worked with a woman who HATED this word,therefore I was compelled to say it more!!!!

Have you heard Kevin "Bloody" Wilson's sketch "you can't say C*nt in Canada" ? Being in Canada it is extra funny, being an Oz in Canada is just the icing !

Australians enter the chat…..

Well, the enterprising linguists amongst you will be pleased to know that in the Sardinian dialect "cunnu" is the female pudenda. It means "cone". And I suspect the Saxon word "kunnut" (the mother of "cunt") shares the same root, presumably Indo- or Proto-Indo -European...