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  2. Avis Crocombe - Wikipedia

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    In June 2019, English Heritage won both Breakthrough Advertiser and the Grand Prix awards at the YouTube Works (UK) awards. [15] In late 2019, a tie-in book was announced with recipes and history. The book was eventually released in September 2020 and titled "How To Cook The Victorian Way With Mrs Crocombe". [16]

  3. Minced oath - Wikipedia

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    Thus the word bloody can become blooming, or ruddy. [3] Alliterative minced oaths such as darn for damn allow a speaker to begin to say the prohibited word and then change to a more acceptable expression. [4] In rhyming slang, rhyming euphemisms are often truncated so that the rhyme is eliminated; prick became Hampton Wick and then simply Hampton.

  4. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    A follow-up routine, titled "Filthy Words" (featured on his album Occupation: Foole) sees Carlin revisiting the original list and admitting that it is not complete, proceeding to add the words "fart", "turd", and "twat" to the list. He brings this up again in another follow-up routine, "Dirty Words" (featured in George Carlin: Again!

  5. Truth behind the Donald Trump quote from 1998 that's rapidly ...

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    He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts. Trump's alleged words began circulating the online sphere in October 2015 , when Trump's campaign was beginning to be taken seriously.

  6. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The word's true origin is unknown, but it existed in the Middle Scots period. [32] [33] News: The word news has been claimed to be an acronym of the four cardinal directions (north, east, west, and south). However, old spellings of the word varied widely (e.g., newesse, newis, nevis, neus, newys, niewes, newis, nues, etc.).

  7. Rhyming slang - Wikipedia

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    The rhyming words are not omitted, to make the slang easier to understand. Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language . It is especially prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in the early 19th century in the East End of London ; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang .

  8. Stupidity - Wikipedia

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    Stupidity is a quality or state of being stupid, or an act or idea that exhibits properties of being stupid. [4] In a character study of "The Stupid Man" attributed to the Greek philosopher Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC), stupidity was defined as "mental slowness in speech or action". The modern English word "stupid" has a broad range of ...

  9. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Never let the truth get in the way of a good story [20] [better source needed] Never look a gift horse in the mouth; Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today; Never reveal a man's wage, and woman's age; Never speak ill of the dead; Never say die; Never say never [21] Never tell tales out of school; Never too old to learn