shagging & fucking

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/4/2010 01:11 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>My usual reading matter -- NYC newspapers, 1801-1850 -- offer
>remarkably few dirty words, so I must hope to find them elsewhere.

George, do you read court testimony?  Or were they tamer in the 19th
century than in New England in the 17th and 18th centuries?

Joel

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