Status Updates From Swearing: A Social History ...

Made it up to "cunt". Gets much more interesting once you get through the introduction.

Gah...

"...the Criminal Law Amendment Act applied only to men- no one could think of a way to explain to Queen Victoria what homosexual acts between women were."

ha ha! lesbians don't get in trouble in the bible, either.

I'm finally at chapter 2...and my eyes are super blurry. Is there a more fun, easy-to-read for the layman version of this?

not making much headway on this one. it's an interesting topic but it's very technically written and kinda hard to read

I'm ready to learn some old-fashioned swears! :)

"Bi all men set I nat a fart." [c. 1555]

there are "swear charts" in here! yes

Я хочу знать, почему bloody - оффенсивное.

I was going to read the chapter on Expansionism and Xenophobia on the plane, but the two men in the row behind me ran the gamut of racism and xenophobia in a one hour flight so I will have to read the chapter later....it's very good so far. He's good on Old and Middle English, and he manages to not only trace the development of swearing but say some interesting things about Chaucer along the way....