On 6-5-2017 11:23, Stephen wrote:
> On 5/6/2017 8:02 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 5-5-2017 20:55, Stephen wrote:
>>> From my understanding Americans don't use the "C" word as a swear word.
>>> In the UK we do. But Shakespeare says it better than I do, in Twelfth
>>> Night (Act 2 Scene 5)
>>>
>>> MALVOLIO
>>> (picking up the letter) My goodness, this is my lady’s handwriting.
>>>
>>> These are her C’s, her U’s and her T’s, and that’s how she makes her big
>>> P’s. It’s definitely her handwriting, no doubt about it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, you can get away with anything by blaming it on Shakespeare. ;-)
>>>
>>
>> Great! I never noticed that! Twelfth Night was the very first
>> Shakespeare I saw at the theatre in my youth and I remember clearly that
>> very scene.  :-)
>>
>
> It may have been bowdlerised. It often is.
> When I first saw it. The letters of another slang word were used. I knew
> what the joke was by the audience reaction but could not understand it.
> Did you get the buttery-bar joke?
>
> A Midsummer Night's Dream is the other one that is used to introduce
> Shakespeare to children.
> That too has its questionable bits with the rude mechanicals.
>

I was just too engrossed with the play to notice anything untoward, even 
if I had understood probably, so no, I didn't :-)


-- 
Thomas

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