F is for F*%#
Posted on Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Lauren, Publicity Assistant
Jesse Sheidlower is Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The F-Word. Recognized as one of the foremost authorities on obscenity in English, he has written about language for a great many publications, including a recent article on Slate. Here, Jesse discusses the criteria for including certain words or obscenities in dictionaries. Watch the video after the jump.
WARNING: This video contains explicit language.
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[...] indeed of Germanic, even if not exactly of Anglo-Saxon, origin. (For instance, I am certain that fuck is a late borrowing from Low German.) Thus profanities, from the inoffensive piss to the grossest [...]