The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74482   Message #1299707
Posted By: Gervase
18-Oct-04 - 09:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fun bits of trivia
Subject: RE: BS: Fun bits of trivia
With a lot of such trivia, surely the word sould be proctoglossolalia?
PS: The corsetry etymology is 'strait laced' as in strait-jacket. Ps and Qs have more to do with printers' pies than publicans' pots, and the brass monkeys have indeed been show to be balls!