1. Why the fuck do we
prohibit profanities?
The etymology of swear
words
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5. Francis Grove’s slang dictionary 1811
APPLE DUMPLIN SHOP
ARBOR VITAE
ARRAH NOW
ATHANASIAN WENCH
BACK BITER
BACK GAMMON PLAYER
BALUM RANCUM
BALLOCKS
BASTARDLY GULLION
BEARD SPLITTER
BITE
TO BLOW THE GROUNSILS
BOB TAIL
BRISTOL MAN
BUCK FITCH
BUMBO
BUNTER
BUTTERED BUN
CARVEL'S RING
CHEESER
CHIMNEY CHOPS
COCK ALLEY
CODS
COMMODITY
CORINTHIANSCORNED
COT, or QUOT
CRAW THUMPERS
CRINKUM CRANKUM
CROPSICK
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6. FUBSEY. Plump. A fubsey wench; a plump, healthy
wench.
FUDDLE. Drunk. This is rum fuddle; this is excellent
tipple, or drink. Fuddle; drunk. Fuddle cap; a drunkard.
C**T. The chonnos of the Greek, and the cunnus of the
Latin dictionaries; a nasty name for a nasty thing: un
con Miege.
9. 1278 – a man named ‘John Le-Fucker’
1348 – Black Death, ‘Fornication Under Consent of the King’
16th
Century – in common usage
1598 – John Florio’s A Worlde of Wordes
1680 – Mock song by Earl of Rochester
18th
Century – considered a vulgar term
1928 - D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was written
1960 – Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trial against Penguin Books
1972 – ‘fuck’ appears in the OED
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10. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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1928 – written by D.H. Lawrence
1928 till 1960 – banned from print
1960 – ‘Lady Chatterley’s Trial’
‘If I use the taboo words, there is a reason.
We shall never free the phallic reality from
the “uplift” taint till we give it its own phallic
language, and use the obscene words.’
– D.H. Lawrence
‘…the most evil outpouring that has ever
besmirched the literature of our country. The
sewers of French pornography would be
dragged in vain to find a parallel in
beastliness.’ – John Bull, reviewing Lady Chatterley’s
Lover (1928)
Geoffrey Hughes, swearing – pg. 191
Geoffrey Hughes, swearing – pg. 192
11. The Mock Song, by John Wilmot, The Earl of Rochester, 1680
I swive as well as others do,
I’m young, not yet deformed,
My tender heart, sincere, and true
Deserves not to be scorned.
Why Phyllis then, why will you swive,
With forty lovers more?
Can I (said she) with Nature strive,
Alas I am, alas I am a whore.
Were all my body larded o’er,
With darts of love, so thick,
That you might find in ev’ry pore,
A well stuck standing prick;
Whilst yet my eyes alone were free,
My heart, would never doubt,
In am’rous rage, and ecstasy,
To wish those eyes, to wish those eyes fucked out.
Source: Kristin Gecan, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180801 [accessed 9th May 2013]
12. “As soon as you deal with it [sex] explicitly, you are forced
to choose between the language of the nursery, the gutter
and the anatomy class” – C. S. Lewis
13. Bibliography
Allan, Keith, Euphemism and dysphemism: language used as shield and weapon
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Battistella, Edwin. L, Bad Language: Are Some Words Better Than Others? (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2005).
Hughes, Geoffrey, Swearing: a social history of foul language, oaths and profanities in
English (London: Penguin, 1998).
Jacot de Boinod, Adam, The Meaning of Tingo: and other extraordinary words from
around the world (London: Penguin, 2005).
Robertson, Geoffrey, The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/22/dh-lawrence-lady-chatterley-trial [accessed
22nd April 2013].
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/florio/209.html [accessed 2nd May 2013]
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/178328?rskey=Yi2K21&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid
[accessed 22nd April 2013]
