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Old 03-06-2002, 09:23 PM   #3
NobleNick
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A much more believable (yet not guaranteed true) account of how a certain word came into being also places the event in England. In this version, however, a father, distressed over a daughter's frolic outside of the shelter of matrimony, referred to her condition using an acronym he made up; so that he wouldn't actually have to say the distasteful phrase: "found under carnal knowledge."
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