The Vulgar Tongue
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Bot account posting selections from Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” CW: 18th-century levels of racism, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming and negative attitudes to sex workers. But on the other hand, someone non-judgmentally recorded the speech and codes of people on the outside of polite society, people in the demi-monde and otherwise forgotten by history. Let me know of any problems. -- #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang #18thCentury
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Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
[18th-century-content warning: possible racism, animal cruelty, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming. Let me know of any problems.]
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