on 2004-02-05 03:54 John Cowan wrote:
Indeed.  In fact, the first fuccative-insertion on record, laughably tame
by today's standards, is an American's:  William Randolph Hearst said of
one of his reporters:  "Tell Coates I said he is too inde-goddam-pendent!"

I first heard of the expletive infix in the context of the "familiar speech" of the US Navy. My experience at Navy bases in later years suggests that the forms may have become ar-f***ing-chaic. (Did I divide that in the middle of a metrical foot?)


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