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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
Jack Campin	BS: Use of the English language (109* d)	RE: BS: Use of the English language	08 Oct 17
Jack, what is a "funling"? Literally "foundling" but in that context (The Flyting o Dunbar and Kennedie) it seems to mean "runt". "Wan-fukkit" for Dunbar meant that your parents were so unenthusiastic and lackadaisical about fucking each other that they didn't fuck you into existence properly. I don't think Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow, was any relation, but his "Great Cursing" is the work of somebody who could really have used the Internet effectively: http://www.biggararchaeology.org.uk/pdf_reports/BASTLE_CURSINGS.pdf

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