References on the History and Origin of Profanity

[Peter Grund]

A good place to start might be Tony McEnery's "Swearing in English. Bad Language, Purity and Power from
1586 to the Present." (Routledge, 2005.)

Peter



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history of profane words and their origins, but I am having a difficult tim=
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