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Speaking of the Unmentionables
How clever it is, though, that metaphor, the great facilitating factor in the changing of word meanings, has carefully camouflaged the unmentionables of the current day.
Upon reading Don Sharp's otherwise well-researched article on unmentionables [XVIII,2], I had the distinct impression that he had gone too far in defining that crucial word.
Most will agree that euphemism is an acceptable means of avoiding the unmentionables, unutterables, inexplicables, ineffables, inexpressibles, and whatever else they have been called.
Writing styles have changed greatly from Victorian days when, as Phyllis Cunnington observes in Costumes of the Nineteenth Century, to talk of trousers was considered vulgar, and some extraordinary names were given to them, such as unmentionables, inexpressibles, unwhisperables, nether integuments, and others.
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