obscene words from "Deadwood"

[Grant Barrett]

Are there any scripts we can look at?

On Mar 8, 2004, at 14:50, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:
> I note that both the OED and HDAS give a Farmer and Henley entry in
> 1891 for the earliest use of "cocksucker," and that the OED's first
> cite of "piss off" is from 1968 and for "shitface" is from 1937. In
> the light of those cites (but bearing in mind how long such terms can
> live in speech without being recorded), does the use of the words in
> "Deadwood" seem authentic?


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