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59: John McWhorter: F**k, s**t, c**t and the truly unspeakable

heretics. | andrew gold

Andrew Gold

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.4968 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Leading linguistics professor at Columbia University John McWhorter talks about his brilliant book Nine Nasty Words, and the origin of swearing. Why are some words profane, and others not? How has it changed over time, and what will the unmentionable words of the future be? John McWhorter Links: Nine Nasty Words: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nine-Nasty-Words-English-Forever/dp/0593188799 https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter Andrew Gold Links: http://youtube.com/andrewgold1 http://instagram.com/andrewgold_ok http://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok http://patreon.com/andrewgold http://andrewgoldpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:15.3

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0:20.6

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0:23.2

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0:26.2

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0:29.6

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0:35.3

offer?

0:36.3

I got Mr. Hollywood himself.

0:38.3

Nice to meet you.

0:39.3

Carl, that's Paul Hollywood, The Baker.

0:41.6

So Mr. Hollywood, what roles have you done before?

0:44.0

I quite like a seeded bat.

0:46.0

And I'm partial to a briosh.

0:48.0

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0:49.0

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0:50.0

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0:52.0

with two for one cinema tickets every Tuesday or Wednesday when you take

0:55.0

out a qualifying product so compare the market.

0:57.8

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1:00.6

season sees apply.

1:01.6

The first attestation that we have, for example, of

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