Re: BLIMEY
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:40 pm
In this case, the First Amendment is in the settings where you can disable spell check, or reducing it to red underlines leaving you the choice.
It certainly used to be among the worst. The single occurrence of the phrase "Not bloody likely!" in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion caused uproar when it was first performed in 1913. More recently, the British TV sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (1965-75) featured a loud-mouthed Cockney character, Alf Garnett, who used "bloody" continually. That also caused much more controversy than it would do today. As call_copse pointed out in this thread, it is a fairly mild swear word these days.Etymology aside, I have the distinct impression that "bloody" was among the worst swear words in Britain. How about it, Englanders? What say you?