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Karly Glenn
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1 October, 10:40
What is the oldest known eupheism
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Judah Adams
1 October, 11:04
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So they came up with this word - this is up in Northern Europe - bruin, meaning "the brown one" as a euphemism, and then bruin segued into bear. We know the euphemism, but we don't know what word it replaced, so bear is the oldest-known euphemism.
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