The website that was posted gave us many answers...
Cunt - "Use of cunt as term of abuse for a woman is a 20th century sense.
From Frederic Manning's 1929 The Middle Parts of Fortune:
'What's the cunt want to come down 'ere buggering
us about
for, 'aven't we done enough bloody work in th'
week?"
So no, the word used is not appropriate for the time, and yes, if we have
access to a website like this one, surely the writers of the show did too.
But it's not really worth arguing over...producers of TV and movies are
going to do what they like with costume and language...bummer, but true.
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Deadwood
Nor my grandfather :) (I NEVER heard either of them ever say a single
swear word, let alone the two 'popular' ones in this show), but you've got
to remember this town was founded by a lot of people who were NOT the
quality of folk who were raised in the best of surroundings and mostly
uneducated and to them it was just what they grew up with
A site of possible interest:
http://www.wordorigins.org
There are some things I surely don't want to be to accurate about in
my
re-enacting!
kelly grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't have an objection to foul language, it has it's place, it was
the
word they were using I had a problem with...I highly doubt certian words
were used that frequently at that time!
I could be wrong, but I doubt my grandfather would have used some of
those
words at any point in his life.
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvia Rognstad"
To: "Historical Costume"
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Deadwood
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