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Day: December 19, 2010

Vulgarity over time

December 19, 2010 ~ Andrew Norton ~ 6 Comments

So as not to upset the internet filters, I won’t put the search terms on my site, but this link shows trends in use of various words that were once clearly taboo.

We seem to have cleaned up our language a little in the last decade.

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Categories

  • Activism & activists
  • Blogging
  • Books & writers
  • Bureaucracy & red tape
  • Business & profit
  • Carlton
  • Citizenship
  • Conflict of interest & self-interest
  • Conservatism
  • Corrections & clarifications
  • Crime & punishment
  • Democracy & elections
  • Dubious research
  • Economics
  • Employment & work
  • Environment
  • Factoids
  • Families & relationships
  • Federalism & the Constitution
  • Free speech & censorship
  • Happiness & well-being
  • Higher education
  • Income & wealth
  • Intellectuals & academics
  • Language
  • Leftisms & leftists
  • Liberalism
  • Magazines
  • Mainstream media
  • Migrants & migration
  • Miscellaneous
  • Obituaries
  • Political identity survey
  • Political parties
  • Political point-scoring
  • Public opinion
  • Religion
  • Rights and freedoms
  • Schools
  • Sickness & health
  • Site News
  • Social capital & trust
  • Status
  • Tax & spend
  • Think tanks
  • Tolerance & prejudice
  • Travel & tourism
  • Uncategorized
  • War & peace
  • Welfare
December 2010
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