Yeah. I actually have a whole pre-recorded speech regarding profanity vs. obscenity and the real reason why words we currently regard as obscene were originally phased out of polite conversation. It involves Anglo-Saxons and Oliver Cromwell and is of absolutely no interest to anyone who is not an English major.
"By my life, this is my lady's hand! These be her very c's, her u's, 'n her t's, and thus she makes she her great P's." --Twelfth Night, Act II, lines 86-88
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Date: 2004-07-31 10:00 pm (UTC)"By my life, this is my lady's hand! These be her very c's, her u's, 'n her t's, and thus she makes she her great P's."
--Twelfth Night, Act II, lines 86-88