Is That the Most Versatile Word in the English Language?

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You can put the fuck in pretty much any question or after any WH word. A poet once said that he worked on a building site and saw the word 'fucking' used four consecutive times in a sentence. You can also use fucking as a, as a thing that we say to lead into something else - like "what should we do?"

Special Guest Mark Steel joins me to discuss cultural and linguistic differences between the UK and France, plus accents in the UK and a little tour of some places in the UK that you don't know about. Also includes a discussion of swearing and rude language in Britain. What is the R word which you should never say in a specific part of the UK? Listen on to find out.

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