“By the first world war, soldiers swore so much that the word “fucking” came to function as no more than “a warning that a noun is coming”. “
Guardian review of Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
Yknow people say I swear a lot but until this post, I didn’t realise how much, because the above are an accurate depiction as to how much I actually do swear yikes