Whilom there was dwelling at Oxford
A rich gnof, that guests held to board,
And of his craft he was a carpenter.
With him there was dwelling a poor scholar,
Had learned art, but all his fantasy
Was turned for to learn astrology,
And koude a certain of conclusions,
To demand by interrogations,
If that men asked him in certain hours
When that men should have drought or else showers,
Or if men asked him what should befall
Of every thing; I may not reckon hem all.
This clerk was cleped hende Nicholas.
Of deerne love he koude and of solace;
And therto he was sly and full private,
And like a maiden meek for to see.
A chamber had he in that hostelry
Alone, without any company,
Full fetisly ydight with herbs sweet;
And he himself as sweet as is the root
Of licorice, or any cetewale.
His almagest, and books great and small,
His astrolabe, [be]longing for his art,
His augury stones laying far apart,
On shelves couched at his bed’s head;
His press covered with a folding [cloth] red;
And all above there lay a gay psaltery,
On which he made a-night’s melody
So sweetly that all the chamber ring;
And Angelus ad Virginem he sang;

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Originally posted by zmježd:
Yes, Caxton edited his editions from MSS, and he made choices and used his orthography.

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"Of which book so incorrect was one brought to me six year passed, which I supposed had been very true and correct, and according to the same I did imprint a certain number of them, which anon were sold to many and divers gentlemen: of whom one gentleman came to me, and said that this book was not according in many places unto the book that Geoffrey Chaucer had made. To whom I answered, that I had made it according to my copy, and by me was nothing added nor diminished. Then he said he knew a book which his father had and much loved, that was very true, and according unto his own first book by him made ; and said more, if I would imprint it again, he would get me the same book for a copy. How be it, he wist well his father would not gladly part from it; to whom I said, in case that he could get me such a book true and correct, that I would once endeavour me to imprint it again, for to satisfy the author: whereas before by ignorance I erred in hurting and defaming his book in divers places, in setting in some things that he never said nor made, and leaving out many things that he made which are requisite to be set in it. And thus we fell at accord; and he full gently got me of his father the said book, and delivered it to me, by which I have corrected my book."

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You're entitled to your opinion, but

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The word was used way back in c. 1390 by none other than Chaucer. Here is a link to a discussion of it. It didn't appear to be obscene at that point. It was spelled, "queynte," so in a discussion I read about the word on Twitter they called it the "q" word. It means, "a clever or curious device or ornament," or "an elegant, pleasing thing."

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Wy, taak it al! lo, have it every deel!
Why take it all, lo, have it every bit;

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c1390 Chaucer Miller's Tale 3276 This hende Nicholas Fil with this yonge wyf to rage and pleye..and pryuely he caughte hire by the queynte.

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Etymology: < quaint adj. (compare later quaint n.2), either punningly after cunt n. or as a euphemistic substitution for that word.

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
It seems to me, as the blog I cited says, "the pleasing thing" was the beginning to the latter use of "cunt."

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for the word that Chaucer uses is not “cunt,” but “queynte.” “Queint,” as a noun, literally means “a clever or curious device or ornament” (Middle English Dictionary) or an “elegant, pleasing thing” (Riverside Chaucer). When used to refer to a woman’s genitalia, it is both a euphemism and a pun.
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According to McDonald, “cunt” was used to refer to the vagina without any suggestion of vulgarity until roughly the end of the fourteenth century. Chaucer, who died in 1400, was therefore writing The Canterbury Tales at a time when cunts were disappearing from polite society; consequently, he hinted at the word without actually using it.

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c1330 (▸?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2254 (MED) Hir queynt abouen hir kne, Naked þe kniȝtes knewe.

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In the literature of the Middle Ages, Chaucer was the most famous writer to merrily invoke the C-word, or, in his case, the Q-word. His bawdy Wife of Bath promises, "You shall have quaint right enough at eve." A character in "The Miller’s Tale" is a proto-Donald Trump: "he caught her by the quaint," Chaucer writes. The term became more taboo over time...

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It has only been an obscene word since the seventeenth century anyway. Before that, we see "cunt" flowering all over medieval literature. In spellings like conte, kointe, queinte, quoynte, and quaint, medieval authors—notably Chaucer—punned on the word. As a noun it meant vulva, in a neutral sort of way. But as an adjective or adverb the word meant something slightly like our contemporary word "quaint"; its meaning ranged according to context, from "clever(ly)" and "wise(ly)" to "unusual" or "beautiful."

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
I was just thinking that words evolve over time and the Q-word could have eventually become the C-word.