The word "swear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb to describe making a solemn promise or commitment, as well as a noun to indicate an oath or anathema. For example, you might say: "I swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States."
Each encounter reveals what ingredients they use, which cookbooks they swear by and where they like to shop and eat.
But the system for dealing with these crimes was the same everywhere: swear the victims to secrecy; send the abuser to be "cleansed" in a clinic; shift him to another parish (or in extreme cases like Smyth's to another country); and, above all, do not tell the police.
I don't know if other parents get this but, when my son started crying, I swear I could hear every tut, every sigh, every eye-roll happening across the entire train.
"I have to say that if I had been wearing these glasses that day against England," he told the Daily Record in 2005, "then I swear they would only have scored about eight".
Australians snorting with derision every time they hear a Labor colleague swear allegiance to the leader.
We slip behind the Virgin, and for a moment, I swear her hair is stirred by an invisible breath.
For me it's writing and tidying; others swear by exercise.
Out came a magnificent stream of Mexican mouthing off, his accent getting stronger with every smirk and every swear word.
Between this assessment, the two that follow, and the teenage girl who will remain in her bed and not be assessed at all because of how often she presents and because the assessments are now deemed counterproductive ("I've worked here 10 years, full-time," a beleaguered nurse tells me, "and I swear that young lady's here more than I am"), my question begins to answer itself.
Oh, and occasionally, to swear violently at the knucklehead who's trying to drive his car through my right leg.
The BBC said it would put notices up in artists' dressing rooms at future Radio 1 events telling them: "Please do not swear on stage.
