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Chaucer has it written as 'queynte', so the words may have actually sounded more different.
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Chaucer has it written as 'queynte', so the words may have actually sounded more different.
- abrowne 12y agoThe OED's earliest attestations is 'cunte' (first in 'Gropecuntelane').