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The gayguin

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A delightful Christmas present (from Kim Darnell), only recently arrived: this t-shirt (which I am wearing as I type this):


Gay Penguin Rainbow Pride Flag, from the teeherivar site

gayguin is a pretty straightforwardly a portmanteau of gay penguin. The arguable etymological components of penguin seem to have nothing to do with the matter; from NOAD:

ORIGIN late 16th century (originally denoting the great auk): possibly of Welsh origin, from pen gwyn ‘white head’. [pen ‘head’, gwyn ‘white’]


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