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=== [[Literature]] ===
* A paragraph in Part III, Chapter VI of ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' describes the "decoding" of letters and papers to "prove" their authors guilty of plotting against the state. This process consists of replacing one noun with a related one ("...they can decypher a Close-stool to signify a Privy-Council; a Flock of Geese, a Senate..."). One of the substitutions is to replace "a Sink" with "a C---t" (censored thus, or replaced with "court", in most printings, but the intended word is fairly obvious).
* In the ''Discworld'' novel "[[
** Pratchett once mentioned that he occasionally gets mail worried that children will start saying "-ing" as though it actually ''is'' a swearword, which goes to prove two things: First, profanity is what you make of it, and second, there is nothing that someone, somewhere, won't take offense to.
*** It's a speech impediment...
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* In Dan Simmons' ''[[Hyperion]] Cantos'', Martin Silenus suffers brain damage that reduces his vocabulary to the Seven Dirty Words. He manages to communicate with them quite effectively. He eventually [[Unexplained Recovery|gets better]].
* [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples|Twelfth Night]] by [[Shakespeare]]:
{{quote|By my life, this is my lady's hand[writing]; these be her very '''C'''{{'}}s, her '''U'''{{'}}s a'''n'''d her '''T'''{{'}}s and thus makes she her great '''P'''{{'}}s.}}
** That's hardly the only one, either. The title of ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' itself has several (intended) meanings, including the [[Get Thee to a Nunnery|"nothing"... in other words, women's parts.]] In Hamlet, there's this scene:
{{quote|Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
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Hamlet: I mean my head upon your lap.
Ophelia: Aye, my lord.
Hamlet: Or did you think I meant [[Country Matters|'''c'''o'''unt'''ry matters]]?
Ophelia: I think '''nothing''', my lord.
Hamlet: That's a fair thought, '''to lie between maid's legs'''. }}
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* ''[[Recess]]'', in the episode "The Story of 'Whomps'" dealt with a made-up word ("Whomps") which was deemed offensive by the adults.
=== Other Media ===
* Eric Idle wrote a song about the FCC after he was fined for swearing. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ajZ-5kTXk\]
* In addition to his ''I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio'', a parody on the use of random sounds to beep out swear words.
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