Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language

272 Notes to pages 193–211
43 Fernándes-Armesto 2001: 37.
44 Counterpart to cheesecake for a woman.
45 Not only was salt a valuable commodity, it is also the taste of sweat and sexual
excitement.
46 We examined Valentine’s Day notices from the Melbourne Age and Herald Sun,
14 February 2000.
47 This may be inaccurate: breasts are often compared to pumpkins and a half
pumpkin is not un-vulva-like. Furthermore, pumping is one of the many slang
terms for copulating.
48 Watson 2000: 114, 133f.
49 Watson 2000: ch. 4 describes a number of these experiments.
50 See Green 1996 for other examples.
51 Gordon 1959: 19.
52 Süskind 1986: 27.
53 Inspiration for this exercise came from Algeo 1966.
54 Brillat-Savarin 1970: 13.
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1 See further examples in Johnson and Murray 1985: 153.
2 Gordon 1959: 33–40, Huizinga 1924: 173–7 and Porter 1997: 111–12 for various
accounts of the cult of saints.
3 Troilus and Cressida, II.iii.19.
4 Captain James Cook, 1728–79. Porter 1997: 166.
5 Morris 2000: 241.
6 See Green 1993 for more slang expressions for syphilis.
7 Luke 16: 20–5; this is not Lazarus of Bethany, whom Jesus resurrected from the
dead.
8 Cf. Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, IV.i.30 and Partridge 1955: 75, 141.
9 John 11.
10 Lepora is corrupcio corporis exterius et interius . . . haer complexie is quaet ende
ghecorumpeert also siin haer ghedachten ende haer ghepens is quaet ende gheveniint.
Ende daerom salmense sceiden uut den ghesonden luijden.
11 Cf. Richards 1977 and Gottfried 1983: 13–15.
12 Physician Armauer Hansen (1841–1912) discovered the bacillus (Mycobacterium
leprae) responsible for leprosy.
13 Details of all twelve texts can be found in Burridge 1991.
14 Cf. Aristotle 1984, Generation of Animals 716–28; Lloyd 1983: 86–111.
15 Lloyd 1983: 58–111.
16 See Aristotle 1984, Generation of Animals 728a 18–21.
17 765a 5–21.
18 Richards 1977: 71–3.
19 A comment made in a survey conducted in the early 1970s on methods to prevent
the spread of STDs; reported in Davenport-Hines 1990: 281.
20 Meigs 1978: 318.
21 F. B. Smith, The People’s Health; cited in Patterson 1987: 43.
22 Ortner 1974.