A History of the C-Word
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
The Disgusting Use of the Word Cunt
Deborah Cameron is a professor of language communication at Worcester College Oxford University. She discusses the word 'cunt' with Bertwixta and finds out why it still ranks as one of the most offensive words ever. Deborah says that in Glasgow where she was born, the word almost doesn't mean anything. It just means personally Well, you know sort of in fact it usually means man. But maybe they don't use it to say woman if they say all this cunt over here. They mean a man It'll be a man Yeah, I have some data if you want to come to that not my personal data, but there is data My first question to you I suppose is do you
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