Today I Found Out
Why are Breasts Called Boobs? (2016x187)
Fecha de emisión: Sept 09, 2016
→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?→’s an oft repeated and decidedly untrue claim that Eskimos have hundreds of words for “snow”. (Beyond the fact that there is no single “Eskimo language”, when talking about the wider Eskimo-Aleut language family, these actually have roughly the same number of root-words for snow as English.) The false claim that they have drastically more is sometimes used to demonstrate how limited the English language is when it comes to coming up with words for things, which is a little unfair considering how many synonyms currently exist for “breasts”. Of the numerous slang terms we have to describe lady-lumps, none is as non-controversial or ubiquitous as the word “boobs”. So where did the word “boobs” come from?
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Sources:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=boobs
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/boobeoisie_or_booboisie_boob_bourgeoisie
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/boobus_americanus
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/01/booby-traps.html
http://birdeemag.com/called-boobs-anyway/
https://www.amazon.com/Barnhart-Concise-Dictionary-Etymology-Robert/dp/0062700847/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1471240668&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=barnhar+concise+dictionary+of+etymolgoy&linkCode=ll1&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkId=bd1ada256e09388b0212db4192ecd7e8
http://archive.org/stream/gaelicetymologyo00mackuoft/gaelicetymologyo00mackuoft_djvu.txt
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JAPaL2ZWKQcC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=is+the+word+boob+offensive&source=bl&ots=jksY8IgXlu&sig=u1Th6WHsczVtKQI7eIHmldv5v30&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PTCPVOaiPPGP7AackYDgCQ&ved=0CCUQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=is%20the%20word%20boob%20offensive&f=false
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tit
http://mumbrella.com.au/ad-watchdog-dismisses-number-complaints-bonds-boobs-campaign-191064
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