Was told the Germanic origin of ‘the c word’

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I worked for an ageing German man. He told me it came from the old Deutsch name for a leather mitten/bag wore on the left hand which held the seed whilst
manually sowing seeds. So a literal repository of seed.

Makes sense

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Susie Dent of the sz,com web page! :smiley:

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Lol dictionary corner!

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I can just see Susie explaining the ‘C’ word on countdown. :smiley:

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