'What an ugly word skin is,' says Lord Peter Wimsey, in Dorothy L Sayer's book Have His Carcase.
He's right, you know.
Word Not To Use Today: skin. This word has been ugly for a long time. The Old English form was scinn and the Old Norse skinn.
Eight five year old (and I think very beautiful) Ivatan (Filipino) woman. Photo by Anne Jimenes
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