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On Behalf Of H. Muth
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 1:21 PM
To: Chat Arachne
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] Re: Archaic Saying
Hello all,
I agree with Tamara about the first part of the saying and think that
the
second must be ruddy son of a bitch! I've never known how
What a treat to get 2 digests in one day.
But my take on the Archaic Saying is that the M sound of muddy is
intended (working toward mother) -- just a little surprised that we
are talking about pitch instead of fish as that would seem to supply
the invective not suitable for the ears of
Hello all,
I agree with Tamara about the first part of the saying and think that the
second must be ruddy son of a bitch! I've never known how 'ruddy' is an
insult. I don't use any of these myself (in general, don't swear at all)
but have heard them all at one time or another.
Heather
Dear Spiders,
Well now, I suppose that's plausible. As I understand it, ruddy is a
reworking of bloody. For example, Gilbert Sullivan's Ruddigore
was a play on Bloody Gore. Bloody was considered to be (and I
believe still is) a rather rude adjectival epithet. Ruddy becomes a
somewhat
