I had heard my brothers and sisters use curse words but had never dared use one myself in front of anyone. But I had practiced alone in my room lots of times, trying out different...

I get that. For you, it’s more than following a bunch of rules—no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.

Sure. God knows what’s important.

(on the word “fuck”)’Oh, come on, Mum,’ I sighed at her protest. ‘It’s just an old Anglo-Saxon word for the female organ which has been adopted by an inherently misogynist language as a negative epithet....

Jeez, Hazel,” Percy said, “tell your horse to watch his language.”Hazel tried not to laugh. “What did he say?””With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top.”Frank looked incredulous. “I thought...

Damn,’ someone behind me says. ‘I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.