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From: kennedy@   (John W Kennedy)
Subject: Re: English Vocabulary Update
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In <437g3v$oce@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jzahn@aol.com (JZahn) writes:
>"Pissed" in England means "drunk/intoxicated," while in America it either
>means "angry" or the past tense of a slang term for urination.
>
It's a somewhat vulgar word, but neither slang nor American.  You'll find it
used twice in 2nd Samuel in the King James Bible (US) / Authorized Version
(UK), where a Hebrew idiom for "male human being" is literally translated
twice as "one that pisseth against the wall".  (Most modern translations
quietly substitute "male".)

