 So, seeing as I would have potentially been eligible for monetization at YouTube at this point, except that they changed their policy a day before I would have reached that, did do kind of realize that even if I met that, a lot of the videos I wind up using language that is not suitable for advertisers, and I thought it would be interesting if we took a look into a bit of the historical origin of many of these bad words, and they're more appropriate counterparts. See if you notice what I notice. So shit seems to be in both noun and verb form of old English origin. That is not surprising. So even going back from 1580s had the general definition of excrement or facies. But that it even back then had a bit of a sling for an obnoxious person. So that's actually kind of interesting because for 500 years it maintained that same sling. You know, shithead is definitely an obnoxious person. You learn something. And then yeah, that it went through a period, and you'll notice this several times, that at approximately the 1600s it fell into heavy disuse. Where it's largely remained. Uh, anything going back before the 1500s though? Not that I can see. But the more appropriate word for shit, and if you're going through research you'll see this. Okay, so they've got this for the entry. And facies is Latin. Ultimately of no origin, but we get it in the 1630s from Latin. Let's think of another one. Start with N1 and see if we can find... Ah, here we go. Let's see, at least 1879. Perhaps from the Old Norse Puss, which means pocket or pouch. And that seems to correlate when you're looking at the low German Prusa, which quite literally means vulva, and Prusa definitely sounds similar to pussy. Given some of the vowel differences between German and English, you typically see a rise you know, we think of German as being lower. So pussy would very readily become pussy in English. That's not surprising. But it... Yeah, so this is actually valid, potentially valid as well, because I can see that as a way of the word forming, especially since they did share that with French, and it's pretty undeniable that French had that effect. The word pussy is now used of a woman. Okay, so there's recorded use of it being used for that purpose from back in the late 1500s. The absence of pussy and gross and other early slang words argues against the vaginal sense being generally known before the... Ah, I see. So it does seem to be like a slang for a woman, but 1879 seems to be the earliest that it was identified for referring to the female genitals. I want to have a look at that. That's an old book, so that shouldn't be covered by copyright anymore. Let me see if I can find that. Markhowick.org has a really good chance that they have it. Oh boy, this is long. Um, I'll find it. So it seems like you can only find the word once within this document, and it's in an untitled chapter 5, and unfortunately that gives absolutely no context about what this is talking about, but based on the use of the word pussy, every boy huggles his pretty pussy and runs up a cottage. This is definitely referring to just woman in general, and despite some of the language that's used within here, at least from my reading it doesn't look like pussy is being used in a pejorative manner, so not as an insult, but just merely a likening to a cat. That's all it seems to be. So there isn't a whole lot of historical use of this word. It definitely seems to just be a rather meaningless slang that was, you know, at one point referring to a woman, and at a later point referring to the female pudunda, doesn't really seem to have ever been offensive. In fact, pussy whipped is probably the most offensive part of that, and that's not even the pussy word itself, it's the implications of it. Not really sure how this ever became offensive. I can't really look up the equivalent of it, because I mean in this case we know that the equivalent of the going really old was just, you know, if it happened to come from the low German pussy, then there is actually something I can look up there, so I'll try to remember to do that. If it was from the old Norse, then pocket or pouch, there's nothing going on there. Yeah, yeah, I don't know, I don't know. But in case you don't recognize where Volvo comes from, it's Latin. Now there is actually a word for what pussy kind of means now. So, specifically the female inter-coral foreman, but back in Old English, so early 14th century he was just referring to the female genitalia in general, and definitely seems to be going back even to Proto-Germanic, may have very, very old Latin origin, but is definitely not recent Latin origin. It's interesting, I noticed that with the pussy as well, is that it sort of interchanged between the two, whereas Latin does the same. Also for those not aware, since you'll see it in quite a few places, not just in this, but on other words, PIE is a Proto-Indo-European, I think that's right, Proto-Indo-European. Yeah, yeah, I don't even need that one anymore, okay, yeah, yeah, PIE is Proto-Indo-European. That's the theoretical root language of all of the European languages. First known reference in English is apparently as in a compound, Garaparokulun, yeah, I can get that, how they'd come to Garaparokulun being a haunt, or just sort of a gathering of prostitutes. So yeah, this word was historically so acceptable that you would see it used in medical writing in the 1400s, but then, and you'll keep track of these, avoided in public speech since the 15th century, so the 1600s, and considered obscene since the 17th century, so the 1800s. The Latin equivalent of this is, or sorry, the appropriate equivalent of it is the Latin. So let's come up with another one. Ah, I know, since it came up in the reading that I had to deal, so from the 1530s, it's a spelling alteration of whore. We added a W, which happened a lot with English words, actually. From the old English or where it mostly meant the same thing for a word that survived. So this actually is a so-called bad word, although there is of course some debate over whether or not you'd consider even the mention of prostitution or other types of sex work bad. I'm of the mindset that it's, as long as they got into it willingly and maintained control over their environment and everything, that it's just work. Obviously, there are a lot of ways in which that can be wrong. There's sex slavery is still a thing. There's even still some pretty shady porn studios and all sorts of other stuff. Pimping is still a thing. There is quite a shying away of sex that happens with certain types of people. Not really sure why that happens, but yeah, it does. But you may have noticed that one of the equivalents given here, something mentioned pretty freely. So let's again look at that one. We've got whore, just means prostitute, a bad word. I keep doing that, forgetting that it doesn't. I mean I could use the keyboard shortcut, but I don't, leave me alone. I guess I like phoning out my typing from the Latin. So even though whore and prostitute mean the same thing, and are, you know, in and of themselves just refer to somebody's line of work. Bad thing to call people who aren't those things. But one of these has a considerably more taboo attitude. What else can I come up with? From the old English, and I, anytime I've ever actually read old English, I don't see it in the like modern English writing. So I'm not sure how that would actually be said, but like BCI or something. Comes from Old Norse. Female of the dog, it's a horrible translation, but basically the, it's a, it's gendered. I don't know why they wrote it female of the dog, because we just say female dog in normal English. But yeah. Which is ultimately of unknown origin, but you know, can trace that back to at least Old Norse. Might come from Lop. The converse is equally possible. So we don't know whether we got it, well, whether Old Norse got it from Lop, or Lop got it from Old Norse. So as a term of contempt applying to women, dates from the 1400s and of a man, 1500. So it came to refer to both offensively, actually. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I think I might have read this wrong. Yes. Yes, I did. Sorry. Okay. So why would you write that so differently? Please don't do that. Write things, if you're, if I was essentially setting up the when it happened to what sex and what it came to mean for that sex, do that in a consistent way for each of them, because oh my God, it causes reading problems. So what it's saying here is in the 1400s, it for women, it came to be used as a term of contempt, but in the 1500s for men, it came to refer playfully as a dog. So then in the starting with the 1400s, you see it being used as a, oh, sorry, as a bad word in certain contexts, but Old Norse goes way, way older than that. So you did still see it with a pretty, pretty reasonable origin or before that. I did not know about that. I've never heard of that use before. What other bad words can we look up? Well, I think I should go without saying that I don't need to look up the, you know, the Latin equivalent of this. Canine. The appropriate one for this now is just dog. And that actually has to do, like this one is an obvious exception to what you've been noticing prior, and that dog is still an English word. I shouldn't even need to search that for, you can if you want, but it's an English word. That happened because English just started dropping a lot of its modifications of words. You used to see two competing things, depending on where you were historically, but basically just basically declines in for the different words to assign them their grammar role. You started to see that drop as well as the gendering of words. So a great example of that is like how where and wife just became man. And then we re-gendered that one. But for most other things. We used to have a gendered and ungendered invariance and now the concept of gendering is so out of touch with English for the most part that when people learn a gendered language, they're like, whoa, whoa, why the hell is like a pen female, but what? What else can we look up? Oh, yeah, because I haven't done this one yet. So at least as far back as the 1670s, you know, the slang word for just a woman itself, but at least from the 16th century, the Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition cites it from 1503 in the form of fuck it. Bishops may fuck their fill and the environment. More ancient word, but not one written in the kind of text that has survived. Looks like John LeFoker from 14. This is a certain code habit. Yeah, that that especially since the 10 indicates that it's probably French. So LeFoker probably has probably has very different origins than the English fuck. They are not in heaven because they fuck thy wives of Eli. Or Eli, released examples of the words otherwise are Scottish, which indicates a Scandinavian origin, perhaps from a word akin to Norwegian dialect or Fika, which is copulate or the Swedish dialect or Faka, which is to copulate strike or push. Another theory traits to modern English, like just to move restlessly or fidget. Yeah, so I guess you could generalize this to saying that fuck basically means to strike. And this should make sense that given things like to fidget or or what was the other one, to like itch or scratch, especially if you look at, say, like a dog scratching. It is very obviously repeated striking. Again, I'm speaking in the very generalized sense. But then if you think about what happens when you're when you're fucking is it's repeated striking of the pelvis of the two people over and over and over. And it's known quite well in linguistic circles, at least that English especially is quite a is one of those languages where words tend to be rather broad in scope and get narrowed a bit by their context. Not all languages operate that way. Now, that context is usually narrowed by things that happen in the languages that don't do that as well. So it's it's. Yeah, it seems like, regardless of which where you got this word fuck basically means in a very general sense to strike. So, you know, it overwhelmingly has the modern meaning of sexual intercourse. So let's just do I don't think I can look up both of those at once sexual intercourse. Yeah, we have the specific well, either way, you can pretty easily see that intercourse comes from the old French and then ultimately from Latin. Anything anything else I can think of? What? So from the 1400s, a dirty slovenly or untidy woman. According to the Oxford English Dictionary of doubtful origin, but probably cognate with the dialectal German schlute slovenly woman. Why, there's nothing offensive about that. Jesus. That was sarcasm, by the way. Slanta of an Iowa woman or a slot. Dutch slaughter. Slower. Okay. The exact relationship to these is obscure. Shalser uses slutish and reference to the appearance of an untidy man. Okay. Also of a kitchen maid. So going back historically, it seems to basically be like an untidy or dirty and then came to be, you know, just like dirty as a slang term refers to it has sexual connotations. It seems like slut actually did the same thing where just refers to like dirty and unkempt, but then took on that sexual connotation. Slut and that's actually a really good example. I have read, I'm not sure how well substantiated they are, but some theories that slut basically derived from sleet and that they both refer to things being sort of sullied. I can see, although how that one quite holed up that well, but it's still an interesting idea nonetheless. I can see how they came to that idea. But the more appropriate way of describing these types of people is from Miss Goose. Any surprise yet? Really? Any surprise yet at all? The appropriate word had that origin. Now I'm all about ideas, word, well, actually, I even have some non-bad words, but you'll notice this happened with. So let me do one of these just to further demonstrate this point a little bit to show that it's not just bad words, but that some of these totally innocuous things, totally unoffensive things that became bad words. So, thing, this word that is became overwhelmingly meaningless. Actually, historically refers to a meeting assembly, a council discussion, or later an entity being a matter, essentially a Congress assembly or parliament. That meaning clearly did not survive. With us from the old French and then likely a spelling alteration of the medieval Latin and from the Latin. You, uh, you noticing yet? You probably noticed this way before. A lot of these words historically had nothing bad about them and all right about the same time period became. Bad where their counterparts from another language became appropriate. So what, what happened exactly? While I generally shy away from Wikipedia, they do have these really convenient hundred year breakdowns of the major historical events and it's we're talking about a considerable language change. There's going to be a major event related to this. So the death of Queen Elizabeth the First, James the Sixth of Scotland crowned King of England, the plague on November, on the 5th of November, the gunpowder plot is uncovered in which Guy Fawkes and other Catholic associates attempted to blow up the King. Um, I just sort of laugh at that. Like trying to blow up a Scottish guy is that humor is probably lost on anybody who's not Celtic. So the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh, the death of James at war until so five years of war, the Bishops' War, the long Parliament's ever English Civil War, Tea Arrives, The Great Fire, the Glorious Revolution, and the Bill of Rights and then the Claim of Rights. So at least based on those, I am not sure I need to do some more digging around. I looked for about two hours after that and I don't know if you would have asked me before I started this video, my guess would have been considerably well before this, another 1,000 years before this, during the Roman invasion, or possibly even like 500 years before at the Norman invasion, but this is way later than I would have expected and I don't know. So I put this up, I'll do a follow-up video when I get an answer or I guess if I get an answer. It's always possible that the reason why is just sort of lost because it was either not recorded or damaged somehow. I'll do a follow-up either way on exactly what wound up happening.