Edo was a place where people changed the word 'Sukibei' that originally meant 'a man of refined taste' or simply meant 'a dilettante' into 'Sukebei' with the new meaning 'lecherous,' which is the etymology of the modern word 'Sukebe' meaning 'a lecher, and coined from a Japanese Word of Chinese Origin 'Junroku' that means 'a placid person who is ignorant of the world' the new word 'Jinroku' with the meaning 'a dunce' in a phrase 'the eldest sons is proverbially a dunce,' for example.
なにしろ、そもそもは「風流を好む人」または単に「好事家」という意味だった「好き兵衛」（すきべえ）という語を「助平」（すけべい）と読んで、意味も「好色な」と変えてしまったり（これが「スケベ」の語源）、「おっとり者で世間知らず」という意味の「順禄｣（じゅんろく）という漢語を「甚六｣（じんろく）と読んで「総領の甚六」という新語を作ってしまうのがお江戸である。