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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An acknowledgment of a personal error or fault.

Wiktionary

  1. My fault, due to my error; my bad.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an acknowledgment of your error or guilt

Etymologies

  1. Latin meā culpā, through my fault : meā, feminine ablative of meus, my + culpā, ablative of culpa, fault.

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  • 3llisonava i am fascinated by the russian language, i wanted to get this tattoo, but i thought it would be completely inappropriate. Even if i made it a euphemism for the Lord Jun 21, 2009

  • reesetee I think attracting them is a good thing, rolig. Mar 16, 2009

  • sionnach One of my classmates in graduate school was called Greg Samsa. And I worked with a woman called Laurel Hardy.

    I blame the parents. Mar 15, 2009

  • rolig I guess I attract them. Mar 15, 2009

  • reesetee You have quite a few "wordplay" friends, it seems! :-) Mar 15, 2009

  • rolig No, Maya and Maksim are fairly common Russian names, though the surname Kulpa is unusual. But such things do occur. I have a good friend in Ljubljana named Tadej (the Slovene version of Thaddaeus), which is pronounced a lot like the English word "today". His sister's name is Tamara, with the stress on the second syllable. Mar 14, 2009

  • reesetee Haha! Seriously? Were they deliberately named for that reason? Mar 14, 2009

  • rolig I once had a friend in St. Petersburg whose name was Maya Kulpa (Ма�? Кульпа), and her brother was Maksim Kulpa (Мак�?им Кульпа). It was hard to resist the temptation to refer to them collectively as Mea Maxima Culpa. Mar 14, 2009

  • bilby Listen up, everybody. We can all relax now. ext11 did it. Mar 14, 2009

  • ext11 Latin. (my fault) Mar 14, 2009

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