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I say "bum" and my wife says "boob"

Interested to hear what you think.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've only heard this as cul-de-sac, I didn't know it had another meaning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Cul-de-sac literally translates to "ass of bag" in french.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's funny, here it's the name of a particular type of dead-end street.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yes. You could use dead-end instead of ass. That is just the origin of the term. It gets its name from the french.

I am also from this place you speak of where the term refers to a type of street.