• fayoh@sopuli.xyz
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    1 day ago

    I think I need a little more help here. Maybe it’s just about not having English as a native language, but the link talks about avoiding the word bug because of connections to sodomy?

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      9 hours ago

      It’s not just you. I can’t imagine many people associating bug with… sodomy. 🤷‍♀️ What exactly were Middle English people doing with bugs?