Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out

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Meditation 'pon the C word
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So what if Chaucer used it. Do we need to use it so liberally?

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Apr 25, 2023
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I’ve got one of my special ultra lowbrow contributions to political discourse in the grown up papers today. It’s about the word C***, or cunt as you may prefer to see it written. I’ve italicised it because it hurts my eyes less, and looks more like French or the old Norse it is.

I’ve fallen out of love with the word, and especially so as it was one of B…

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