Soon, the speech of barristers, cabinet ministers, academics and surgeons was splattered with fucks, as it still is today when they want to appear unsnobbish. And, paradoxically, it is often ill-educated people who are the more loath to say it - for fear of appearing ill-educated.


Also from this article, "spastic" is more offensive than "fuck"

Not that I give a fuck.

Note that I must keep making to self: The 'fuck' taboo is still alive and well in suburbia.