Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt Cunt

Other than to feed my desire for totally useless gossip, Facebook is, on occasion, full of much needed information.

See the following example:

On my quick jolly around Facebook this morning, I came to realise that Common Julie has joined a Facebook Group entitled 'The Campaign To Make 'CUNT' a More Globally Accepted Word'.

I joined immediately.

The word CUNT deserves much more than global appreciation. It needs a Nobel Prize for being so darn powerful and sexual.

And on delving further into the group I came across what might possibly be, one of the most important pieces of information to feature on this blog:

"Cunt is believed to derive from a Germanic root *kunton "female genitalia", which also gave rise to Old Norse kunta (ancestor of Norwegian and Swedish dialectical kunta and Danish dialectical kunte), Old Frisian, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch kunte, and the English doublet quaint.

And, by the way, the word wasn't always considered derogatory, even though it is today. Be careful about assuming that a word's modern connotations must have governed its formation. By the way, no connection has been made between the Germanic words and Latin cunnus. The proto-Germanic root of cunt is ku- "hollow place", while the Indo-European root of Latin cunnus is (s)keu- "to cover, to conceal", the etymological meaning of cunnus being "sheath"."

This shower of wisdom is from one of the groups' members.

Whoever you are, we salute you.