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Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
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For instance:
1963 K. Waterhouse Jubb (1966) 138: Bloody sodding hellfire Jesus Christ All-hopping Mighty!
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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GDoS has examples for these (less fuck + variants): bally, bastard, bitch, blanky, blasted, bleeding, blessed, bloody, blooming, bully, by-god, damn, flaming, freaking, fricking, frigging, god-damn, hell-fired, hopping, like, motherfucker, motherfucking, raasclat, rotten, ruddy, shagging.
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...so enjoy instead my 2022 @stronglang.bsky.social post on merkins:
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This merkin life
After John Kelly published his comprehensive post on merkin in 2015, I assumed there could be little left to say about those pubic hairpieces with the quaint name. (You should read the whole post, …
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October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Sono tutte cavolate!

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Cavolo! The Idiomatic Italian Use of the Word for Cabbage
Let’s look at some examples of cavolo used idiomatically in Italian.
italianwithantonio.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Nice! I haven't come across this one. [SC]
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM