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Old 22nd Apr 2005, 21:46
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Well, Colonel, I remember the days when bastard referred to a carpenter's file ...
...now, it seems, it refers to a the offspring of an unmarried couple.

I think carpenter's terms ill-find their way in to all sorts of modern linguistics.