Academics from the University of Sheffield hope to create a ‘vivid, honest record’ of swearwords and other slights to stop them dying outAn idiot wandering the British Isles is sure to be greeted with a colourful volley of insults, each a signifier of the place in which he finds himself: “divvy” in Merseyside, “pillock” in Leeds or “dinlo” in Portsmouth.But…
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