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Fill your lungs and get ready to shout out some profane answers: it’s the Swearlusionist Swearalong Quiz! Every answer is a swear word. Swearing, as we know, is good for your health, plus helps vent stress, and you’ll learn many etymological facts along the way, so this is a very wholesome and educational quiz.
CONTENT NOTE: this episode contains swears. Surprise!!
Scroll down the post for an interactive quiz sheet if you want to play here rather than aloud.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
There’s more swear-related content on the Allusionist feed: the C-Bomb episode about the C-swear; Take a Swear Pill, about how swearing is good for you; Susie Dent talks about euphemisms and false etymologies of swears in To Err Is Human; there’s stuff about testicles in Shark Week, ‘the Swiss army knife of cussing’ in Zaltzology, and the etymology of ‘shit’ is in the Vestiges episode.
I’ve already been to a few of these places; should we plan a road trip?
About ‘shit’ in place names.
About windfuckers.
Oh Roger Fuckebythenavele, what did you do?
How Robert Browning got the meaning of ‘twat’ wrong.
Counting the swears in The Wolf of Wall Street.
How ‘bollocks’ was found in court not to be indecent.
YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
drabble
drabble, verb, archaic: make wet and dirty in muddy water. Origin Middle English: from Low German drabbelen ‘paddle in water or mire’.
CREDITS:
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, with editorial help from Hrishikesh Hirway.
The Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and hear more of his composition on the new science podcast for kids Maddie’s Sound Explorers.
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