Sexual Words in the Dictionary
Warning… the article I link to is NSFW! So do not read it if you are easily offended!!
Slate.com did a great piece on why it’s so difficult to put sexual words in the dictionary. First there were “moral” decisions by the creators of dictionaries, then there were legal reasons! Believe it or not, even though the “F-word” first appeared in a dictionary in 1598, it then disappeared until the 1960s! That is one of the reasons why the “F-word” and many other sexual words have so many false stories of their origins!
Anyway… I was thinking about making a few videos on YouTube describing the origins of these words. People seem to use these words quite a bit on YouTube these days, so I don’t think I would be censored this time around.
Some of the origins are really funny.. and some of the false origins are even funnier. So I think I could have fun making these videos.
What do you guys think?
Here is the Slate article.. check it out.
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