Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Of recent years in England there has been a noticeable decline of swearing and foul language, and this, except at centres of industrial depression, shows every sign of continuing until a new shock to our national nervous system, a European war on a large scale or widespread re...
Of recent years in England there has been a noticeable decline of swearing and foul language, and this, except at centres of industrial depression, shows every sign of continuin...
2. Part 2_Acres_: “Ha! ha! you’ve taken notice of it――’tis genteel, isn’t it?――I didn’t invent it myself though; but a commander in our militia, a great scholar I assure you, says that t...
3. Part 3‘Apparently “bottom” was the common equivalent, in the secret language which I postulate, of the word “buttocks”. Now, among primitive peoples _no man will utter common words wh...
4. Part 4The only really effective form of swearing that I know is this: Suppose you quarrel violently with a fellow-traveller in a crowded railway-carriage, perhaps about opening window...