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Old 23rd February 2012, 06:18 PM   #159 (permalink)
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Re: February's Fabulous Feast Of Fully Formidable Fiction

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Originally Posted by Extollager View Post
Does the slang term "wanker" go back to the time when Vance wrote the books and his publishers issued them?
You can't say it! It's rude.

It's 1940s British slang, apparently. Must have taken some time to cross the Atlantic. (Perhaps because the seamen were otherwise engaged.)
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