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  2. History of Swear Words - Wikipedia

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    On December 9, 2020, it was announced that Nicolas Cage would host an unscripted six-episode series about the history of swear words for Netflix. [1] [2]The series has been produced by Bellamie Blackstone, Mike Farah, Joe Farrell, and Beth Belew for Funny or Die, with Brien Meagher and Rhett Bachner for Industrial Media's B17 Entertainment respectively.

  3. Kory Stamper - Wikipedia

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    Stamper's first book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, was released by Pantheon in March 2017. [18] [19] [20]Stamper appears in all six episodes of the 2021 Netflix series History of Swear Words, [21] providing commentary on the linguistic histories of various obscenities.

  4. Category:English profanity - Wikipedia

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    F. Faggot. Feck. List of films that most frequently use the word fuck. Fuck. Fuck her right in the pussy. Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck, marry, kill. Fuckery.

  5. The historical origins of 6 swear words - AOL

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  6. Three Weeks With Lady X - Wikipedia

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    Melissa Mohr, author of a book on the history of swearing, says that although the term has been in use in pornography since the Victorian era, "because romance novels are written for women, that word would have been seen as kind of masculine, kind of harder, and so previously, romance novels would have used other words.” [1] James chose to ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    You'll see some newspapers print "f blank blank k". Some print "f asterisk asterisk k". Some put "f blank blank blank". Some put the word "bleep". Some put "expletive deleted". So there's no real consistent standard. It's not a science. It's a notion that they have and it's superstitious. These words have no power.

  9. Expletive infixation - Wikipedia

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    Expletive infixation. Expletive infixation is a process by which an expletive or profanity is inserted into a word, usually for intensification. It is similar to tmesis, but not all instances are covered by the usual definition of tmesis because the words are not necessarily compounds. [1]