the new taboo

[Prof. R. Sussex]

The C-word is used in "Sex and the City" as seen here in Oz, though
whether it is broadcast with this decoration in the US I don't know.
Here the program is aired, if that is the word, after 9.30pm, at
which time indelicacies are less strictly policed. This program is
the only place where I have heard it used in the regular media.

London once had a "Gropecunte Lane" - see
        http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/hub/A753527
for a richly illustrated description of the C-word and many others.

Roly Sussex

PS
London's Gropecunte Lane is now the very mercantile Threadneedle
Street. As the BBC piece observes, it is now the location of the Bank
of England.

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Roly Sussex
Professor of Applied Language Studies
Department of French, German, Russian, Spanish and Applied Linguistics
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
The University of Queensland
Brisbane
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AUSTRALIA

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