Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by dirty words. It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – profanity, curses, oaths and swearing itself.

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[…] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.

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