
Gossip
The Why Factor
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You Talked Too Much and You Gawked!
In scotland, they put scolds bridles on men as well, occasionally. In england, what sanctions there were against men expressing themselves too forcibly and quarrelling were slightly different. They only fok ay, living in one o them as efi be living in one won on 24 seven, was that you gossip too much. An talk e mi shar and you gossip. Ye av, gossip isthroughout the history of this city, in this country, you find the authorities trying to control what's being whispered. And if you look around some of the torture instruments you have here on the wall, they were quite serious about trying tocontrol what people spoke about.
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