From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 00:43:38 EST
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> I don't know it in any ConRomlang, but in French it's Morpion, which is
> also a term used to talk about naughty boys (the kind like Dennis the
> Menace ;)) ) and the name for a species of parasites mostly found in pubic
> hair ;))) .
Interesting. "Louse" is of course insulting in English too, and the
adjective "lousy" has become a general derogative (a bit dated, but still
well understood), synchronically completely separated from "louse" + "-y".
Another, older, name for tic-tac-toe is "noughts and crosses".
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