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What �s scaring me is that the words being chosen lately used to be common in my language 20 or 30 years ago and now they are considered unusual. Am I getting old?
Corporal punishment is still very much alive in Asia. Beating, caning, spanking are some of the more popular ones. Caning is often done with a rattan stick and boy does that hurt.
There has been some protest against this practice, so recently the cane has been replaced by a more supple instrument, namely a fish, a dried haddock to be exact. This makes the walloping less painful.
Linguistically it was very difficult to pronounce - think of magistrates pronouncing �you are sentenced to 20 dried-haddockswallops �, so the haddock �s cousin, the cod, was brought in to give some relief. I still wouldn �t want to be sentenced to 50 codswallops though.
@Philip, Where did you ............ find that picture ??????? ( That �s what we usually do at my school, but we �re not allowed to post pupils � photos...)
BTW, codswallops have been efficient - so far ........Pupils are getting better & better - Cod knows why!!Atchoo...
*trumpet* Hear ye! Hear ye! 
