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Any Porn Connoisseurs? - 5/20/2013 3:02:02 PM

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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#51923591.

The Oxford English Dictionary has put out a call for a book used as reference for 51 separate words. There is a possibility the book ( pub. 1852, I think) might have been porn. Does anyone have knowledge of the book "Meanderings of Memory"? Anyone?

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RE: Any Porn Connoisseurs? - 5/20/2013 5:08:20 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanderings_of_Memory

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RE: Any Porn Connoisseurs? - 5/22/2013 10:39:23 AM

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I like your tag/sig line!!

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RE: Any Porn Connoisseurs? - 5/22/2013 10:45:01 AM

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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/oxford-english-dictionary-mystery-meanderings-of-memory.html

I just got done reading (again) The Professor and the Madman, about Minor and his role in the OED. (who; among other things, performed an autopenectomy ((Look that fucker up)) )

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RE: Any Porn Connoisseurs? - 5/22/2013 10:48:13 AM

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/05/oxford-english-dictionary-mystery-meanderings-of-memory.html

I just got done reading (again) The Professor and the Madman, about Minor and his role in the OED. (who; among other things, performed an autopenectomy ((Look that fucker up)) )

Without looking it up, I'm guessing he cut off his own penis? Now I'm gonna go look. The Professor and The Madman is a book I've been meaning to read.

ETA: Yep, I was right.

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RE: Any Porn Connoisseurs? - 5/22/2013 4:48:11 PM

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Wow.

I don't think I've yet seen those two words used one after the other like that.

Congrats.

I also have to say thanks for this.

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A theory proposed by the OED bibliographer was that the book might contain pornographic content, leading to it not having been catalogued in a typical manner.

I can see the title working well over poetry or something blue. The words may hold a clue which is the more likely.

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OED entries sourced using Meanderings of Memory :

Chapelled Cock-a-bondy Couchward Day Dike/Dyke Droop Dump Epistle Extemporize Fanc Flambeau Flesh Foodless Fringy Full Gigantomachy Goal Goalward Hearthward Idol Inscriptionless Lump Peaceless Rape Re- (prefix) Revirginize Reliefless Rheumatize Sanctuaried Sap Sarcophage Scarf Scavage Shoe Slippery Sun Templed Transplanter Tribe Tribunal Trouse Trunked Un- (prefix) Unbusy Unstuff Vermined Vulgar Warmthless Wen Whinge Width

Nope.

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RE: Any Porn Connoisseurs? - 5/22/2013 4:58:23 PM

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ORIGINAL: hlen5

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#51923591.

The Oxford English Dictionary has put out a call for a book used as reference for 51 separate words. There is a possibility the book ( pub. 1852, I think) might have been porn. Does anyone have knowledge of the book "Meanderings of Memory"? Anyone?

I only watch porn that doesn't use Oxford English.

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