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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. History of Swear Words - Wikipedia

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    History of Swear Words is an American documentary series hosted by Nicolas Cage. The series was released on January 5, 2021, on Netflix. [1] [2] [3] Premise.

  4. Swear jar - Wikipedia

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    The concept appears to have originated in the 1890s, under the name "swear box", [3] [4] and to have gained popularity in the 1910s. [5] The term "swear jar" appears to have been invented in the 1980s in the United States, and is not documented in Great Britain; [5] an early mention of a swear jar is in the 1988 U.S. movie Moving. The concept ...

  5. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    A poster in a WBAI broadcast booth which warns radio broadcasters against using the words. The seven dirty words are seven English language profanity words that American comedian George Carlin first listed in his 1972 "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue. [1]

  6. Minced oaths in media - Wikipedia

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    Swearing on stage was officially banned by the Act to Restraine Abuses of Players in 1606, and a general ban on swearing followed in 1623. In some cases the original meanings of these minced oaths were forgotten; 'struth (By God's truth) came to be spelled 'strewth and zounds changed pronunciation so that it no longer sounded like By God's wounds.

  7. Queen Elizabeth thinks this completely normal word is “vulgar”

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    Still, the idea of the 91-year-old monarch swearing is still amusing. RELATED: Strict royal words . But there’s another word Queen Elizabeth cannot stand—and it’s nothing you’d ever guess.

  8. Question looms: When cities meet to swear in officials and ...

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    They planned to swear in elected officials, following last week’s election. But there’s a hiccup in those rituals, caused by a recent change in state law.

  9. Swear - Wikipedia

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    Swear or Swearing may refer to: Making an oath, also known as swearing an oath; Profanity; Music "Swear" (Tim Scott McConnell song), a 1980s pop song, single for ...