Word: cuss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Major difference in speech: People never say cuss up here. That's a word I used a lot back home...
...homesteader's family against varmints and becomes a reluctant role model for the tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people you don't like. It's the blind leading the blind: Butch is trying to become the father neither he nor the boy ever knew...
What's an editorialist to do? These are two of my favorite ideals, and usually, they come as sort of a package deal--I coo with delight each time The Alliance of Parents Against Cuss Words in Rock Music mounts yet another doomed campaign...
...linguistic. It is not merely that all of San Angeles (the Southern California metro area stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego and embracing Los Angeles) has been declared a no-smoking area. It is also legally salt free. And alcohol, red meat and sex free too. If you cuss in public, you are issued a ticket by all-hearing, omnipresent machines. If you need to find out something about the past, you look it up at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library...
...moved on). A natural stinginess soon made him give up on machines that gobbled his money and gave so little back. Like the other boys, he called up Maxine, the best-known madam, to tie up the line she used for customers. "We did it mainly to hear her cuss -- we never heard a woman use language like that...