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  2. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  3. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    Crap: The word "crap" did not originate as a back-formation of British plumber Thomas Crapper's surname, nor does his name originate from the word "crap", although the surname may have helped popularize the word. [1] [2] The surname "Crapper" is a variant of "Cropper", which originally referred to someone who harvested crops.

  4. Bullshit - Wikipedia

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    Bullshit (also bullshite or bullcrap) is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism bull or the initialism B.S. In British English, "bollocks" is a comparable expletive.

  5. List of religious slurs - Wikipedia

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    Derives from namaz, the Persian word for obligatory daily prayers usually used instead of salah in the Indian subcontinent. [76] Peaceful, peacefools, pissful, shantidoot India: Muslims Derives from the common statement that Islam is a "religion of peace". Sometimes the Hindi word "shantidoot" (Messenger of Peace) is used. [73] Osama North America

  6. How to Block Annoying Emails for Good - AOL

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    Ready to finally stop getting those pesky spam emails? Here's how to block them—and clean up your inbox for good. The post How to Block Annoying Emails for Good appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  7. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    It's the thrust of the sentence that makes them either good or bad. [4] Carlin was arrested for disturbing the peace when he performed the routine at a show at Summerfest in Milwaukee in 1972. On his next album, 1973's Occupation: Foole, he performed a similar routine titled "Filthy Words", dealing with the same list and many of the same themes.

  8. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    "Ah, good for nothing, feather, full of shit, bed-pisser, jack of the harpsichord, shirt on the arse, loop of the hanged, hard-headed mule! Look, now also lice cough loudly! Go, that palsy get you, that your mom get the bad news, that you cannot see the first of May.

  9. Category:English profanity - Wikipedia

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