Dumbfounded that at 42 years old I’m posting a sophomoric question, but…
Settle a disagreement, O teeming millions?
Is it “come” or “cum”?
FYI, I say it’s ‘come’, and that ‘cum’ is a…a made up spelling (by bad or tawdry writers) becasue, well, it MUSt be spelled differently? Besides, I just don’t like it.
Survey says…?
Cheers,
Jake
can’t believe I’m wasting my semi-annual post on this…
Cum.
“Come” is already taken, and should only be used by those too dainty to use the appropriate spelling.
All the Ladies spell it thusly: O-H-W-I-N-S-T-O-N
heh. :rolleyes: um… :dubious:
Oddly, it is not mentioned in the Associated Press Style Guide.
The spelling “cum” is better because it looks so dirty! 
I hate ‘cum’. It looks like grafitti written by a 12-year-old.
Are you talking about the verb or the noun?
And if you think about the, uh, afterglow, what did you do (hopefully)? You came. So it’s come. Maybe. But I’ve always seen any reference to the “by-product”, male or female, as cum. Maybe that’s why condoms aren’t sometimes referred to as scomebags.
Damn, I’m confused. Now I don’t know if I’m coming or going. 
That’s what I always thought, too.
I agree with Skelji. When you orgasm, you come, but cum is … uh, what comes.
Definitely cum.
Spelling it that way distinguishes it from the non-sexual term. And that’s the form it takes in compound words like cumstains and cumshots.
Although I had to laugh at a billboard for a local restaurant that featured little else but the name of the restaurant and the tagline COME HUNGRY. Was that supposed to be pronounced “Come hungry” or “Come hungry”?
I’ll take the word “come” over “cum” anyday.
When the word “cum” is used, it just seems childish to me.
“come” is listed in the dictionary as:
Main Entry: 2come
Function: noun
1 often vulgar : SEMEN
2 often vulgar : ORGASM
I don’t spell cum very often but when I do it’s c-u-m. Like Snooooopy said… it looks dirty!
The other word for “orgasm” is spelled c-l-i-m-a-x.
Cum is the noun, come is the verb.
Consider this as I relate the other name for our records room at school: the “cum room.” It’s a shortened version of “cumulative room.” They even refer to the files at my school as “cums.”
Some words just shouldn’t be shortened.
That’s because it was already covered by the Official Letters to Penthouse Style Manual 
I think it got confused in the past tense.
Came.
Not cummed.
I remember it being spelled “come” back in the early 70’s (when I first started reading that particular genre). Then it seemed that the “cum” spelling became more and more common until it was pretty much universal in the mid 80’s.
“Genre”: that’s French, y’know [nose in the air]
aaah, le petite morte!
I like this game, cos a lot of my colleagues insist on using ‘cum’ in the old Latin sense (meaning, ‘with’) but don’t actually realise it means, ‘with’ they just think it’s high-fallutin’ english. I like taking it down a step (low-fallutin’ english?) and will turn bright red in mock horror when they talk about having a dinner-party-cum-auction for the office recreation club…
Don’t that just look filthy? urgh!
shudder
Where does that leave the residents of Ashby-cum, Fenby, Kirkby-cum-Osgodby, Tyldesley-cum-Shakerley, and (my favourite) Chorlton-cum-Hardy?
(Oh I love silly placenames)
That leaves them holding the bag.
HA HA HA HA HA ah, this is too easy 