Comments on: Library of Profanity

By: Ms. Yingling

Ms. Yingling — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:04:12 +0000

In the middle school, I do watch words in books more carefully. If a student can be expelled for using the word, should it be in a book he can check out from the library? Has to be there for a good reason.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:57:33 +0000

I’m not sure you’ll prevail in this matter, but I hope you do – and wish you luck.

By: Mary A. Axford

Mary A. Axford — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:27:46 +0000

If you search Worldcat (OCLC #2220952)you’ll find a record for one of my favorite journal titles:

Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts.

Mary

By: Deborah Fitchett

Deborah Fitchett — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:59:53 +0000

In a discussion elsewhere a while ago about filtering user-inputted tags for profanity and other offensive language, I posted the results of searching the University of Canterbury catalogue for each of the list of words then under discussion. Numbers below show a general keyword search with end truncation / a general keyword search without truncation / a title keyword search without truncation.

anal 23021/7/0
anus 31/3/0
ass 48134/49/23
asshole 3/1/1
bitch 43/31/10
clit 88/1/1
cock 772/83/24
cocksucker 0/0/0
cunt 5/0/0
fag 367/9/4
fuck 19/12/1
kike 10/4/3 (all Japanese)
milf 465/0/0
nigger 29/24/16
penis 32/16/0
piss 69/4/0
shit 231/19/2
twat 0/0/0
whore 80/50/20
(Note that this is only end truncation as the UC library catalogue doesn’t allow front truncation.)