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So everyone on TV is saying "vajayjay" now.

Sounds good to the ear, but it doesn't look good in print.

I suppose it's making headlines because it's the only word for the snatch that hasn't been stamped out by TV censors the instant its usage became common.

In fact, I was very surprised to learn the word's supposed origin, in a medical drama. A medical drama. A MEDICAL DRAMA, WHERE THE WRITERS HAD TO USE BABY-TALK INSTEAD OF THE CLINICAL TERM.

I was about to despair about the puritan ways of American broadcasting, when I continued onto the article's cameo by my favorite linguist, John H. McWhorter, whom I first remember from his appearance on P&TBS, and later his lecture series about human language. Here he offers a different angle:

“The reason that vajayjay has caught on, I think, is because there is a black — Southern especially — naming tradition, which is to have names like Ray Ray and Boo Boo and things like that,” Dr. McWhorter said. “It sounds warm and familiar and it almost makes the vagina feel like a little cartoon character with eyes that walks around.”

Don't bother trying to draw that character. Someone would just Rule 34 it.