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The History of Swearing in This Country Is Not So Darn Easy to Explain
Tom Scocca · 08/29/14 12:40PMPeople are Just Cursing Wherever They Want To
Jeff Neumann · 01/28/11 08:40AMNew Edition of Huckleberry Finn to Have All the Bad Words Removed
Richard Lawson · 01/04/11 10:11AMBrooklyn Courthouse Bathrooms Overwhelmed with Dirty Jokes
Jeff Neumann · 12/21/10 06:09AMMeredith Vieira Baits Tween Into Saying C-Word
Hamilton Nolan · 06/10/10 08:17AMWhat Terrible Things Have Police Done This Week?
Hamilton Nolan · 05/13/10 12:21PMNYTimes.com May Be Too Good for Farting, But Not for Belgian Porn
John Cook · 06/11/09 02:37PMGet Funemployed!
Hamilton Nolan · 06/04/09 11:47AMThank God We Don't Work in Britain
Doree Shafrir · 11/22/06 05:05PMDespite everyone's whining about the FCC's regulating of Janet Jackson's nipple, dirty words, and the like, we writerly types (don't worry, we use that term loosely) should thank whomever's in charge that we don't have rules like they do in Britain, as today's Guardian reports:
Foul-mouthed President Drags Family Newspaper Into 20th Century
abalk2 · 07/17/06 02:16PMOur Lexis/Nexis account has expired, so we're not one hundred per cent sure, but it looks like this is one of the first times The Times has used the word "shit" in its pages. (Or on its screens; maybe they prefer to use the web to work blue.) The occasion, of course, came during a conversation between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which the president did not know was being transmitted over a live mike: