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They might conclude that Americans today are as uptight about profanity as were our 19th-century forbears in ascots and petticoats. It’s just that what we think of as “bad” words is different.

Profanity has the unique potential to reveal facts about our language and ourselves that we’d otherwise never imagine. And why we need to study it. And why we need to study it.