When did Siamese twing become "conjoined"

[Gowron]

http://news.sky.com/h...news/article/16130632

[MarkRae]

At the same time as the rest of the politically correct revolution in the 80s.

[ichkeria]

I think they're conjoined from the start, aren't they??

[Gowron]

was that about the same time that Nessalls became neslay?

[MarkRae]

It's rubella these days...

[albaqwerty]

Nestle (with the acute above the e) has always been that. It was lack of knowledge or ignorance which meant it was never pronounced correctly

Rubella has also always been rubella. I have no idea who thought calling it German Measles would make it less painful.

[sandyRoe]

Or Nigerian internet fraudsters?

[MarkRae]

Rubella was also known as German measles because the disease was first described by German doctors in the 18th century.

[ichkeria]

"Conjoined" strikes me as a rather more sensible term. Or maybe that's just me ...

[albaqwerty]

Thanks Mark. You must have a brain the size of a planet. :)

[craft1948]

Well siamese twins was a bit daft...........I mean they're not all Siamese.

[MarkRae]

Yet all they do is send me to fetch the prisoners and park the spacecraft...

[MarkRae]

Conjoined twins came to mass public attention when P T Barnum "exhibited" a pair of them as part of his travelling circus The Greatest Show On Earth.

Guess what nationality they were... ;-)

[craft1948]

German?

[Gowron]

albaqwerty, as there are no accents in English it is correctly pronounced nessals in English, more importantly though it annoys foriegners!

[albaqwerty]

Tuvolan?

[MarkRae]

How on earth could 'Nestlé' be pronounced 'nessals'? Where does the 's' come from...?