Cunt: The History of the C-Word
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From Matthew Hunt
Abstract“[A] nasty name for a nasty thing” (Francis Grose, 1796)
“[T]he mother of all nasty words” (Andrew Goldman, 1999)
“[T]he nastiest four-letter word” (Tom Aldridge, 2001)
“[T]he nastiest, dirtiest word” (Sarah Westland, 2008)Very little has been written about the word ‘cunt’. The longest article so far published is an entry in The Dictionary Of Invective, in which Hugh Rawson calls ‘cunt’ “[t]he most heavily tabooed of all English words” (1989). Rawson’s article is five pages long, though this ancient and uniquely powerful word surely deserves a more extensive analysis.