‘Tis that season again, Yuletide is upon us, hohoho! Now, while Christmas is what we usually call this annual celebration in English, the word Yule, which is arguably quite sparingly used today, is also a part of the English lexicon for a very good reason. While the religious celebration called Christmas (literally Christ’s mass) is now celebrated annually at this time … More From Yule to Christmas
The much used rude word fuck – or the f-word as it is often referred to as – has a long history of use in English, dating back through the centuries. For some time it was believed that the first recorded use of the word was in 1528, when a frustrated monk (for purposes unknown) allegedly wrote “O d … More A slightly explicit post about the classic rude word “fuck”
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