A Brief History of Swearing (opens in new tab)

(guardian.co.uk)

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Spoiler: "the history of swearing is one of a movement back and forth between the holy and the shit. At different times in the history of the west, the primary taboo has been to do either with God, or with the functions of the human body."

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