My mum knows a feller from Sweden whose name is "Knut".
So near, and yet so far.
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:50,
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common name
also in Germany.
Knulla means fuck in swedish </useless>
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:52,
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Knulla means fuck in swedish </useless>
Coins from the reign of King Cnut
have the four letters arranged amusingly around the edge.
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:53,
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Bloke who tried to command the tide?
Refered to as 'Canute'?
Is that the one?
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:56,
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Is that the one?
That's the feller.
"CNUT" is the original Saxon/Dane/whatever spelling.
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:57,
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Not necessarily ALL coins from his reign.
Some of them definitely do, though. I saw David Dickinson spelling it out on telly. And I used to live with a numismatist, so I've seen some first-hand.
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:59,
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close enough
that she tells people about his misfortunate close call, I'm glad to notice.
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:53,
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There's a grave...
...I Brompton Cemetary which houses the Cunter Family.
I shit you not.
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Mon 19 Apr 2004, 17:54,
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I shit you not.
Was it here that somebody posted that essay on the etymology of the word "cunt"?
Apparently the stem appears all over dozens of languages and in all kinds of innocuous words. And in names its usually means exactly what it looks like.
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