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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2005-08-06 11:32 am
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ooooh, take THAT, ex-colony!

Most British swear-words have a history longer than that of the United States itself...
The BBC's h2g2 discusses swearing.

[identity profile] eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com 2005-08-06 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
Not unlike that page, which dates from 2002. ;)
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[identity profile] waider.livejournal.com 2005-08-06 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, aside from that one-liner, it's a poorly-written piece that could do with a good editing. If only to remove all the bowdlerising, although maybe BBC's content policy would prohibit that.

[identity profile] eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com 2005-08-06 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Indeedy. Someone on my LJ friends list posted a link to it 6-12 months ago (possibly [livejournal.com profile] merde, but i'm not sure) and my reaction was, "Some interesting stuff, but not very well put together."

[identity profile] wisn.livejournal.com 2005-08-06 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Lots of words Americans use are older than the United States. Funny, that.