[lit-ideas] "Dr. Condom, I presume"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:44:52 EDT
D. Ritchie writes in his commentary of his poem:
>It's hard to imagine that there was a sufficient market in >trusses. What
else would they sell? Male corsets perhaps? Condoms >maybe?
I've just checked and demolished one of my most cherished urban myths.
"condom: origin unknown; no 18th-cent. physician named Condom or Conton has
been traced though a doctor so named is often said to be the inventor of the
sheath."
Don't you hate, Geary, when they write, "origin unknown". Surely they should
abbreviate, "origin unknown." -- meaning "unknownable" or _so far_
'unknown'. To be known or unknown is such a _subjective_ thing that happens to
an item
that I can't see with what authority the OED claims that something is known
or failed to be known.
Surely more than enough people 'know' that Condom existed.
Cheers,
JL
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