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Thus is ybore the Englisshe tunge (infosec.pub)

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Also why swear words are swears. They're what the common people called things, and it was a way of denigrating the proletariat to regard it as foul language.

Shit Vs excrement

Fuck Vs copulate

Etc

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

As someone who avoids swearing, this really makes me want to start

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Most of our short abrupt words came from Vikings like Skull and most of our swear words. Not the culturally superior Saxons

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You'd have to google individual etymology if you wanted an answer for that.