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Wash your mouth out
Author(s) -
Green Jonathon
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2004.00557.x
Subject(s) - tinker , phone , dance , media studies , oral history , art , history , art history , visual arts , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
The phone rings. It is the BBC, probably some local radio station. Can I help? A royal has done it, a pol. has done it, a tinker, a tailor, a soldier ... someone deemed newsworthy, anyway. Yes: someone's said fuck. In public. Coo‐err. And they want me to comment. I regale the researcher. A little history, a little lexicography, a little obscene publications. We book an interview slot. 'But there's just one thing: you won't actually say the word, you do promise?' And like mother soothing a frightened child, I promise. And keep it. Because I know this dance...