what’s the worst mistake you’ve ever made at work? after a long & stressful day speedwriting summaries i mixed up the names of (BBC director general) Tony Hall & (disgraced paedophile) Stuart Hall in a report i sent to... BBC DG Tony Hall, all the BBC top brass, the BBC trustees,
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As a rookie English teacher in Spain I felt I had to explain in Spanish what a weasel was, and not knowing the word for it I said "it's a long thing that goes into rabbit holes". I was then unaware that the Spanish word for rabbit doubles as a vulgarism for female genitalia.
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Used to in english, too. Coney/cunny is used from Shakespearean times to late Victorian
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