My Mother never used profanity of any kind. For that matter neither did my Father nor did their parents.
My Mother would just about not say anything bad about anyone and never anything bad about one of her children. One day she did get mad at some woman, for whatever reason I have forgotten. Mother trying to say something bad about her she said, that, that, that, Flapper!
That was the worst I have ever heard Mother call anyone.
What church did they go to?
Not to pry but just wondering about the tidy language.
I guess I never ever heard my grandparents swear though my daddy liked a good cussin’.
My mom-—and I guess her parents on occasion too-—would call us “little scheisters,” using the German for sh!+, and my mom would also say “you little pee-ought” which I deduced after she died, too late to ask her, probably stood for P.O.-—as in we had got her p.o.’d....