NSFW The history of swearing...

All tiied up · Post by **All tiied up** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:33 pm

it starts off with...

1900 - Shot by an anarchist while standing on a Brussels railway station, The Prince of Wales utters the immortal words, “**** it, I’ve taken a bullet."

http://www.laughingpoliceman.com/swear.htm

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:27 pm

Ahh I so love Brittain:

1972

Oxford English Dictionary includes the words “F%CK” and “C%NT” for the first time. The National Campaign for Real Swearing issues a statement which reads:

“We’d be a bunch of lying c%nts if we didn’t say that we were totally f%cking delighted”

Bert