An Explicit History of Swearing

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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A potty-mouthed history of swearing, in which John blushes and stammers and Angela just talks like she always does. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History with me John O'Farrell and...
0:10.8	What the fuck are you talking about, John?
0:12.4	Oh, Angela's started already.
0:14.3	Oh, potty mouth.
0:15.8	Tell them what we're doing this week, Angela, because it's not scuturitous swearing.
0:19.8	It's relevant swearing. It's relevant swearing.
0:21.9	It is relevant swearing, John. We are going to be talking about the history of swearing in English.
0:28.7	Do you know what? We had one of our listeners saying how much they loved our show,
0:33.4	whose Twitter handle is Snowy Swear a lot. And I said to her,
0:38.3	oh,
0:38.4	we're doing one for you next week.
0:39.8	She goes,
0:40.0	that sounds fucking fantastic.
0:41.6	So,
0:41.9	so she'll be pleased.
0:44.5	It's for you snowy swear a lot.
0:45.7	Language is very interesting.
0:46.7	It tells you about history.
0:47.9	And Angela,
0:48.4	you did a linguistics degree at university.
0:50.9	I did.
0:52.0	We didn't talk that much about swearing particularly. You just did it in the
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