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From: "Gordon Barlow" <>
Subject: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 12:55:31 -0700
References: <004b01c416b0$a66468f0$0cf8eb18@wordcruncher>

> Thank you Bill, for that tidbit.
> Bruce.
>
When did titbits become tidbits - or vice versa? I strongly suspect it is
bowdlerisation - unnecessary, if so, since few of us would ever refer to a
flat-chested woman (or man) as being possessed of "titbits". I mean,
surely!

Gordon

This thread:

• [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>

  • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by Lee Quinn <>
    • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by hens <>
      • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits => bits and pieces of Aphrodite by "Israel \"izzy\" Cohen" <>
    • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>
      • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Bruce Todd" <>
        • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Gordon Barlow" <>
          • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by "Bruce Todd" <>
    • [ABOUT WORDS] titbits - Titch by Lee Quinn <>
  • Re: [ABOUT WORDS] titbits by