earlier this week the onion was in aberrant a controversial situation
because they treated and of course it was a joke that buttons on a wallace was
kind of attract now excuse me for using the word but and we're gonna use that
word quite a bit in this story because i think that gate makes it better to just
say it uh... now
and hour after the poster that at they took it down and they issued in very
rare apology
and here i can understand why they did that of course you know when it has to
do with a nine year old and all word as
uh... i guess buoyant and as negative as kind to people are gonna have a bad
reaction to it
as they were doing that story there were a lot of questions that came up
isn't that that word gets under people's skin why does it have such a
negative connotation
right and that you know that you know what the detention is basically means
female genital yet
and that's what it was originally used for
and nothing more than that
so i wanted to be that's a little bit of a history on the word kind and um... you
know escalated into a job act
profiling this word and uh... they started by talking about the earliest
instance of this word being used so i'll tell you what that is the earliest
instance of the word of the world record in oxford
english dictionaries actually from
the name of a thirteenth century in london streets grub cuddling
but isn't unruly belonged there was a streetcar idea i'm pretty sure i'm
pronouncing it correctly but it was groped kindly nearly aren't so that it
was very reasonable
corporate complaints suddenly there it is actually
and that was a straightening now of course afterwards it was used after for
at you know
medical purposes in fact uh... one surgery manual circa fourteen hundred
said the following in women that neck of the lottery short and is made fast to
the correct i'd really like the stuff i've always been interested in origin of
not just words but also expressions like twitter
you know popular fashions come from it's one of the stuff absolutely so let me
tell you a little more about that this word
uh... in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
also have the word in their names uh... in a way that seems unlikely today so
some men and women at that time that included names like
white-collar
robert cleave cuts and good no-cut controls
uh... unlike the second one of the sort of big-name blue border would have an
agreement for instance leave cunt
yeah it's a it's a pretty fascinating and last name but nothing so that's what
happened
now timeout we hit seventeen ninety six all of a sudden people words so in favor
of that where it was a really used and last names
and it definitely was a used in uh... some surgery manuals and so uh... one
example is robert burns would walker burns printed the old scottish folk song
ya neon dion lassie in seventeen ninety six the word appeared only as c dash t
uh... in his eighteen eleven dictionary of the bulger tom francis gross defined
kind as a nasty mainframe nasty thing well elsewhere beam boat he believed it
out entirely or reference to it only as it d'amato's syllable
d'amato sample is really ugly important thing to focus on here because a lot of
linguistic trying to figure out why is it the people hate this weird so much
and he realized that it's the way that it sounds these mono syllable words are
often really really harsh and people don't like the way they sound so think
about one syllable words like
hits cock
but those are all words that it will be difficult uplifted argument hot peppers
wildlife
if you have a cell of course you know that
the word cut falls under that kind of uric and they also mention at the end of
this that that
follows in that same category of male comfortable saying everything here yet
it's less offensive is more like asif really big going a little bit is a silly
were
but it is interesting how we have so many words for you know one small favor
difficult role
but that they have such a wide variety of connotations and it's interesting how
does develop over time