Related: Will the British bird be a redbreast or a blue tit? | Letters A rose-tinted curse The hazards of the Kent countryside and health secretary Jeremy Hunt are well known, but giving a talk last week I was tripped up by "fecund", which I contrived to turn into a leading English swearword.
As for that unintellectual worthiness, Mr Bush has deliberately fashioned an anti-Clinton administration where loyalty is central, where ties and dark suits are always worn, where "damn" is considered a swearword and where voices are lowered, as if in church.Indeed, religion often seems to be at the heart of it.
Third, the stronger the swearword, the harder we ought to think about using it.
Second, use such words only when absolutely necessary to the facts of a piece, or to portray a character in an article; there is almost never a case in which we need to use a swearword outside direct quotes.
He makes a real effort not to swear in front of his children, he says, and only first heard his father use a swearword through a wall when he was 13 years old.
Not once during the entire interview does Garcia utter a single swearword.
On the face of it, that's unusual, as the estate is entirely system-built – and system-building is a swearword in British housing.
"There is a worse swearword than fuck, isn't there?" says Joel. "Yes, there is!" I say, still with a magical twinkle.
"That's the meanest, most hurtful swearword there is.
The swearword would have been bleeped out from most news programmes, and it wouldn't have made any worse the key points, that he seems two-faced and that he seems to consider any discussion of immigration bigotry.
