[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes.

Cole Porter - 1934 Broadway musical, Anything Goes! (Act 1 Scene 6)

[nopardons]

Yes, great lyrics and from an equally great musical. But, things are now very much worse, than they were back then, as far as the writing ability of published authors and the general public.