It does. But of course it also means what they thought.
SB wrote:
>Ah, at about 25, I shocked a table of friends with 'boner'.
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>I thought it meant 'mistake'.
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>On 7/20/05, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Ah Mark,
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Tut, tut, Joanna - Mark est un autre. Je m'appelle Martin. Pauvre
Martin. :-)
>> we are of an age. Whilst I was being an eternal child in those very
>>same years, the game amongst my friends (so-say ladylike, single sex school
>>as it was) was to trick me into the innocent use of some term which *they
>>knew had a bawdy under-meaning, so they could giggle and nudge each other.
>>There was one song, I remember, where the rude words were replaced by
>>rhymes -- it took me years, quite literally, to work all of that one out.
>>(But I got it in the end!) I'm still fascinated by such secondary meanings,
>>but what I long to know is how such things came about. I mean, they aren't
>>all obvious puns or metaphors.
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>>joanna
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