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Bot account posting selections from Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”
CW: 18th-century levels of racism, homophobia, sexism, slut-shaming and negative attitudes to sex workers.
But on the other hand, someone non-judgmentally recorded the speech and codes of people on the outside of polite society, people in the demi-monde and otherwise forgotten by history.
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