Nor does he call mutton lamb, or milk cream. Nor does he use cuspidor for spittoon, or B. V. D.'s as a euphemism for underwear, or butterine for oleomargarine. In the 60's an undertaker was often called an embalming surgeon in America. Most of these, of course, are merely country high-schools. Compare the German civile preise.
Australian euphemisms deserve to be investigated.
No doubt the presence of so many convicts among the early settlers caused a great number to be invented. Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore .