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Tony McEnery, a professor of English language and linguistics at Lancaster University in Britain:
The campaigns of the late 17th and early 18th century that linked bad language with moral degeneracy, low education and general brutishness were incredibly successful in forming views of bad language that endure in the English language to this day. They were also successful at establishing the nascent middle classes of the English speaking world as a locus of purity and hence a locus of power.
Now follows a gratuitous use of the word ‘fuck’.
Class it up a little: “Le fu—.”
I’m an educated person; this is why I say dang nabbit.
