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  2. Category:English profanity - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "English profanity" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total ...

  3. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    1983 – Carlin at Carnegie – HBO special – "Filthy Words" The Carlin at Carnegie version can be heard as "An Incomplete List of Impolite Words" on the 1984 album Carlin on Campus (but not in the HBO special, Carlin on Campus). That version of the list features over 300 dirty words and phrases in an effort to stop people telling him that he ...

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    See List of English words with disputed usage for words that are used in ways that are deprecated by some usage writers but are condoned by some dictionaries. There may be regional variations in grammar , orthography , and word-use , especially between different English-speaking countries.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Wikipedia : Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Badwords cleanup

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    3.2 To be rechecked against revised version listing 3.3 Now removed by revised version listing 3.4 Problems found in the new version listing, but missing from the original run

  7. The Elements of Style - Wikipedia

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    The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a ...

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

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    The word may be related to the Dutch word nestig, or "dirty". [71] It predates Nast by several centuries, appearing in the most famous sentence of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, that in the state of nature, the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". That work was published in 1651, whereas Nast was born in 1840.

  9. List of English palindromic phrases - Wikipedia

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    A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". ". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language, found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phra