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The Words We Invent To Avoid Bad Words

“So long as humans have had things to be discreet about, they’ve had names that furnish some rhetorical distance from the things themselves.”

Author Douglas McLennanPosted on February 13, 2011March 30, 2021Categories publishingTags 02.13.11

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