Savage Love: Spelling of cum remains a seriously sticky issue
by Dan Savage on January 13th, 2021 at 8:03 AM 1 of 1 2 of 1 As you can see by my signature, Dan, I’m a linguist. On your podcast, you frequently ask researchers “whatchyougot” on all kinds of sex- and romance-related questions, I thought maybe you’d be interested in some expertise on linguistic matters too. And I have some on cum, cumming, and (shudder) cummed. The technical term here used among linguists for this kind of phenomenon is peeve. Let me clarify: it’s not the cum, cumming, and cummed that’s a peeve but the shuddering. You see, the snide sound there is due to the ...
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