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					Originally Posted by  Bob A
					 
				 
				On a far lower plane of discussion, I was struck by the use of "bird" as a euphemism for the male generative organ, insofar as it is also prevalent in English (or perhaps I should specify "American"?)
  
			
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 " Bird" is the same in North Italian too...while is the South of Italy it is " fish".
If I am not mistaken there was a writer or thinker who was saying that is difficult to talk of a united country if half of it calls it Bird while the other half calls it Fish.