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Re: Is it any wonder children swear?
Gotta agree with you Harwood Red.
When is a word not a swear word Spuggie J? - It's the context.
I have a friend who always uses the word "ruddy" - now we all know this can mean the rosy cheeked complexion of a rather windblown country outdoors type person but he meant it as a "substitute" swear word. He and his wife run a message forum and one day she decided to put the word "ruddy" in the censor list but rather than just substitute a series of asterisks she substituted a string of words! Consequently the next time he posted "ruddy" what people actually saw was a long winded sentence full of words hardly anyone had heard of!
At the opposite extreme that censor list caused some hilarity when people found themselves having "roostertails" at a "roostertail party" or even a very extreme censoring of the word "pooh" which led to someone reading their child a bedtime story about "Winnie the Whoopsie"
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