Bad language!

Yes. We seem to have moved on from that though, absent - is that allowed?

etheltbags1 are you serious? "Expensive" nursery school, so she can meet really well behaved kids and "professional" families?? Sorry, but I think you are living in a dream world if you think money and profession equals "nice" ! Also, please forgive the pedantry, but I don't think that these idealised people to whom you refer would use the word "kids"

For goodness sake. Isn't the whole point of the article that many of the swear words in use today and popularly attributed to Old English, are either not Anglo-Saxon in origin or were simply ordinary words for ordinary activities used snotorlice by ordinary people?

ethelbags you really can't believe that rich well educated/behaved or professional families don't use bad language surely?

that's the sad part of our society, I want DD to send DGD to a nice nursery school, expensive, so she can meet really well behaved kids and professional families. The local nurseries are full of rough kids who swear. Im being a snob but I just want a really good life for DGD.
Having said that I worked for a millionaire years ago and she swore like a trooper I was quite embarrassed. I must be realistic and try to tell her that its bad to use such words

They will, though, there's no getting away from that fact.

we are, hopefully, more civilised nowadays and quite frankly when I hear vile language from drunks etc I feel they are letting themselves down.

I just say 'oh heck' or 'oh my god'.

I once had a partner who used vile language, every other word was f...
and I started to use it when we argued as nothing else seemed to get through to him. It became a habit until someone said 'have you heard yourself' and I realised how bad it was.

I was brought up to be a lady, although we were no rich by any means I was taught that behaviour is most important if we want to improve socially. None of my friends or family use these words and I don't want my DGD to ever hear them.

Bet you wish you hadn't started this Lily.

Oh, it's an onion.

Have you read page 2 lilygran?!

According to the article, they weren't vile in those days. Just perfectly useable words.

Well!! whoever knew!

I cant bear to read all that, I just know that we are better educated nowadays and should not need to use such words. It does not take a huge brain to be think up polite words in place of those vile expressions.

Just too much in there!

. Rude.