I started a thread about how much I hate the word Cum and it got deleted

[Tetsuo]

I don't know why.

It was quite an interesting discussion.

I maintain that I hate the word cum and I'm not sure when 'come' to orgasm, to arrive, to reach one's sexual destination got bastardised to the really base and crude word cum, it's redolent of grubby blokes, it's seedy, it's horrible.

Anyhoo, I'm not sure why I was deleted, I think maybe one poster thought I was a seedy bloke that wanted women to discuss that word.

Promise I'm not!

It was an interesting discussion up to the point of deletion.

Agree and have always thought this. Not sexy, it’s like other posters are saying - seedy, porn, grotty and kind of thick. Like the men on the punters website.

This ^ And it's latest iteration - to "nut' which I'm seeing a lot lately on FB and seems to only refer to the male orgasm.
Women, apparently, don't have a word for it any more. We exist only to facilitate it in men.

I agree - makes me want to heave.

But so is come?

Asi say it’s definitely been spelled as “cum” - pronounced identically as “come” since at least the year 2000, so certainly far longer than 5 years.

Entirely agree but you'll be accused of snobbery, elitism language policing getc etc
Apparently we have to abide by the lowest common denominator because Folks....

If I didn't understand the basics of phonetics and phonology, I'm afraid I'd have been sacked about 29 years ago.

1973 according to the etymological database I looked at out of curiosity.

Hmm, I made a voice record but you can't post audio files.

The three words are all pronounced very differently.

Coombe is pronounced cooowm, long and soft, like womb.

Cum/cwm is pronounced cm, short and soft, say it very quickly.

Cum is pronounced cUm, short and hard, the uh is very prevalent.

You hate it so much you made another thread to keep writing it over and over? Honestly surprised MN kept this up!

And, as I said on the other thread, Cum is used frequently in Fanfiction for BOTH female and male orgasms and their seed. And a lot of fanfiction is written by women, particularly women in the 20s.

Right, but the word “come” as in “please come and get your dinner” is pronounced the same as “please don’t come in my hair” or “I’m going to cum”

All pronounced identically.

I bet OP is old older than me and think 1973 was 5 years ago.

Its the only possible explanation.

This made me laugh imagining someone phoning up the AA as in Automobile Association and saying “is this the Aaah Aaaah” and then either thinking it was an attempt at phone sex or someone in intolerable pain.

Sorry, continue your debates.

Orange crush 'please don't come in my hair' 😂😂

I quite like it. If someone wrote ‘come’ I’d find it vaguely off putting…. Like I was sleeping with someone’s socially awkward uncle.

I’m early 30’s and it was definitely what we called both orgasms and semen when I was at school. Maybe I’d feel differently if I grew up with it being spelled ’come’ though.

I won’t, don’t worry.

Well, yes, that's quite amusing.

But as any fule no it's AA.

This is making me remember the Durex advert with the people dressed as giant sperm having a tour of a giant condom and the guide says “come, come cum”

I've just looked and there are a lot of pronunciation audios on YouTube demonstrating the standard pronunciation of both words.

@Tetsuo I hate to see it written too. When I hear a man say "cum" it conjures up images of a sleazy, porn addled, bloke who wants to jizz on my tits/face. Whereas "come" doesn't for some reason. I don't mind if a man tells me he's going to come, it's not the spoken word, it's the written "cum" that turns me off. Like panties or moist, or any porn-speak.

I hate the (written) word too. It makes me think of some kind of congealed custard.

But I am extremely confused about the pronunciation OP...

If coombe rhymes with womb
And come rhymes with some
What does c*m rhyme with, if different from some??

Au contraire!

They aren't.

Come is soft, an ahm sound.

Cum is very Anglo-Saxon, a definite Uh.

And I'm not a perky bloke. So desist with your nonsense @ButWhatAboutTheBees, you're the one reading fan-fic.

Cum rhymes with hum @SpanishSunset!

And also sum.

But not some.

How can it be Anglo Saxon if it was only invented 5 years ago?

In my accent they are most definitely pronounced identically.