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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.
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.
While it is the function of metaphor to conceal the unmentionables, it is likewise the pleasurable business of etymology to expose them.
By far the oddest offering of the week is A&E's Unmentionables: A Brief History (Sun.