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Bookmark or Share- How did the word "beaver" come to be associated with vagina?Jonathon Green's sources (as cited in Brian Hooper's answer) notwithstanding, the limerick that appears in Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel (1927) runs as follows:
- Idioms or phrases to answer to obvious (yes) questions?I've come across this analogous question for the opposite case Idioms/Phrase for Obvious No but couldn't find one for mine. I'm looking for phrases like "Does the Pope pray?" or "Doe...
- word choice - "No point in" vs. "no point of" vs. "no point to ...@FumbleFingers: Firstly -- gerunds aren't exactly nouns; they're verb forms that share nounish behaviors, but they can be modified by adverbs (as you've just shown: "arguing endlessly" = "endless arguing"), and they can take direct objects ("arguing a point" = "the arguing of a point").
- grammar - Negative questions: “No, I don’t” or "Yes, I don't ...By saying “no“, to me it sounds like he would be saying, “No, I haven’t not seen it”, which would mean he has. Also, the other night, my boss posed the example question on the board for me, “Do you not like it?”.
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