28 Feb, 2018
The evolution of one particular 'rude' word
There was a time when ‘bloody’ and ‘bum’ were too rude for conversation, whether polite or less-so. But more recently, I have realised that another word has joined their ranks: fart.
This hit home when I was, of all places, in the children’s section of the bookstore. Emblazoned on several covers was ‘fart’, on Nobody Likes a Fart, Old MacDonald Heard a Fart and Girls Don’t Fart.
At risk of sounding more at home watching Betty White in The Golden Girls than Lena Dunham in Girls, I was surprised