Sunday explainer: WTF is up with all the swearing?

By John Elder
Updated January 10 2016 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Dropping the f-bomb, or the c-bomb. Swearing is said to originate in oaths to God.  Photo: Illustration by John Shakespeare
Dropping the f-bomb, or the c-bomb. Swearing is said to originate in oaths to God. Photo: Illustration by John Shakespeare

WTF? This week there was an outbreak of profanity in the ruling class. Does this presage a looming moral collapse?

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