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Herf, what a bloody awful word (sorry yanks) can't we do better
Well, it has got the scandal and the smoking element to it
"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls."John Galsworthy "A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world." Franz Liszt "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar." Evelyn Waugh "Remember, commander, no cigars before launch."a Cuban doctor's orders to an astronaut at Cape Canaveral
not bothered myself, if it aint broke don't fix it?
My sentiments too.
But then, I was around in the days when they started using "herf" and remember that several times a year, over perhaps 10 years, the issue of finding a "better' word was raised.
The result?
Nada.
These things simply cannot be forced....
words EVOLVE and are appropriated.
That's just the way it is!
HERF it will remain then
"By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls."John Galsworthy "A good Cuban cigar closes the door to the vulgarities of the world." Franz Liszt "The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar." Evelyn Waugh "Remember, commander, no cigars before launch."a Cuban doctor's orders to an astronaut at Cape Canaveral
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