[Fictionary] pink tooth results

David Randall withywindle at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 8 11:35:06 EDT 2008


> I can't speak for David (who may have installed a keyboard logger in my brain,
> I suppose) but looks like coincidence to me.  I was thinking of the
> commonplace pejorative "Papist mummery" used against Catholicism, and made up
> the rest.

Precisely.  Although clearly no longer commonplace.  I read about it
professionally, studying early modern England; I suspect I must have read in
the newspapers about Ian Paisley or some such use it; but I can't actually
recollect the last time I read about it being used.  It is a wonderful
phrase, because it ties together in two words the Protestant dislike of the
whole of medieval/secular culture with the dislike of Catholicism.

David




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