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February 21, 2012 05:23 pm PST
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Dirty words of 1811
On Project Gutenberg, the 1811 edition of Francis Grose's "Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue," a compleat look at all the dirty cussin' of the early 1800s. It was produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, who clearly have admirably filthy minds. Some of my favorites: ACCOUNTS. To cast up one's [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/J0E6jfhTMYA/dirty-words-of-1811.html
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