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#1 2007-09-18 21:56:12

ersatz
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"cuddle sack" for "cul-de-sac"

Comes complete with a folk etymology (I think?).

All of the houses at the end of the street are cuddled together.

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#2 2007-09-19 17:37:01

Craig C Clarke
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Re: "cuddle sack" for "cul-de-sac"

When I was a teenager my brother pointed out a street and called it a cul-de-sac, I was not impressed by the street and the houses, and always the (unfunny) jokester, I remarked “well, they must really have had to cull da sack to come up wid dat place…”

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