Some words - like "
swiving" (the same as the F word) fall out of fashion - a sign that our attitude is always changing.
The most obvious oversight is the author's failure to acknowledge Sarah Poynting's discovery (made public in 2007) of Charles's now infamous "
swiving" letter to Jane Whorwood.
If Marche wants to find a more congenial literary advocate of jovial
swiving, let him look to his Chaucer!
"What's been a surprise to me is that this jewel of English literature, a lot of it is about farting and
swiving - which is Chaucer's word for doing the dirty deed, which we're trying to bring back into usage in the English language!
Hinksey has been appointed as rector at
Swiving Monachorum--the name might be rendered "the Monks' screwing-place" in modern English--perhaps in order to extract one more laugh at the implicitly below-decks language of Mrs.
One decoded line reads: "I imagine that there is one way possible that you may get a
swiving from me".
Thus he welcomes us to his feast on what might be Inflation Sunday during Hypocrites' Holiday in the year of the Warmonger, two thousand four, or maybe fifteen thirty-two, it's much the same, since swilling,
swiving, corruption and conniving, fanaticism, bigotry, and bloodshed haven't changed, and the sports bars are still full of opinion.
TWO coded letters from jailed King Charles I reveal a crude bid for sex or "
swiving".