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Common four-letter words (in this sense) include: '' Shit '', '' Cock '', '' Fuck '', '' Damn '', '' Hell '', '' Cunt '', '' Piss '', '' Arse '' ('' U.K. '') and '' Twat ''. These, in addition to at least ten others, are widely considered Vulgar or Offensive to some degree.


SIMILAR EUPHEMISMS IN OTHER LANGUAGES



Group of profane words

  • Dutch : A similar tradition occurs with "three-letter words": (''kut'', ''pik'', ''lul'', ''gvd'')



Specific curses euphemisms

  • Spanish : the word ''puta'' ("hooker") is sometimes referred to as ''cuatro letras'' (four letters), e.g. ''Esa chica es una cuatro letras'' (That girl is a four-letters) designating a sexually disinhibited lady.


  • French : the word ''merde'' ("shit") was sometimes referred to as ''les cinq lettres'' ("the five letters") before its use became widespread and mild.


  • German : the phrase "Setz dich auf deine vier Buchstaben" ("sit down on your four letters") is mainly used speaking to children, as it refers to the word "Popo", meaning "bum" in baby talk. Variants of the above phrase "Setz dich auf deine fünf Buchstaben" ("sit down on your five letters") or "Setz dich auf deine vier oder fünf Buchstaben" ("sit down on your four or five letters") allude to the vulgar use of the word "Arsch" ("ass").


  • ", although if challenged, the speaker could always claim he simply meant ''vir'', i.e. "man".


  • Polish : the word ''dupa'' ("ass") is called ''cztery litery'' ("the four letters")


  • "), the most common obscenity, is called "the three letter word" (слово из трех букв) or "three jolly letters" (tri vesyolye bukvy)



TETRAGRAMMATON

Another interesting meaning of "four-letter word" (in Greek , '' Tetragrammaton '') is the Hebrew name of the Abrahamic God , that is, יהוה (commonly transliterated as "YHWH", "Yahweh", and "Jehovah"), which Jews do not speak aloud, and protect when written (see Geniza ). The taboo within the observant Jewish religion and culture of desecrating this, may have contributed to the etymology of the vernacular "four-letter word."


QUOTATION

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

:: — Cole Porter , "'' Anything Goes ''"

The fact that in Australia . The band Cake also made a play on words in their song "Friend is a Four Letter Word", while The Blood Brothers took their prose in a different direction with their song "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck", which still stays true to the original meaning.

A famous citing of the majority of these words was in the FCC 's censorship of comedian George Carlin 's radioplay of his comedy routine ' The Seven Words You Can't Say On Television '.


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