Vulgar words in Magazine, or Animadversions on the English Spelling (1703) (Page 1)

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arse x 1
ass x 2
blockhead x 1
whore x 2
            

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But why do they not leav out y also, which signifies not more, but les than e: And why is not i and e cast out of praise and raise, and e from wife and strife, which adorn the words no more than Beauty-spots do a Whore's Face: And why is not w for a black Patch, cast awa from know and blow, as well as da, and wa hav cast awa their Pock arr-y; and why is not w to do, where there's need; that 'ton need no mock 'tuthr wi' the los, and wi' the load of w: Now indeed we have cast awa ugh from though, and although, when som sound is of them, and not left gh out in bright, light, thought, where they signify no more than a chip, or herb Gohn in poredg: Ha!

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O, for a, nort[h]erly, as paredg, [h]arses, carn, amang.

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O u u, as hone, stone, doore, through, wo, whore, fore, more.

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S in isle, island, ass, as is uz, s single is as T in whitsunday, and watch, catch, clutch.

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_Difficilia quæ pulchra._ _Hard to be dun, a dute iz sur dhe gratest bute._ _A Table of the self-same Leters, Spelling words ov a far different sound._ As with, with, bath, bathe, sith, sithe, both, both, loath, loath, oath, oathes, smith, smithy, breath, of, off, then, yet, liveth or liveth, joth or joth, mouth, mouth, path or path, wrath, wreath, faith or faith, thy, thigh, this, thistle, thou, thousand, thank, they, them, theame, thus, thunder, thine, thin, goal or goal, as afore, motion, crimson, action, Acteon, singed, hanged, changed, shepherd, Shaphat, dishonour, asham'd, bishop, mishap, character, charity, duckherd, blockhead, Dutchess, gather, success, suggest, or suggest, or suggest, or suggest, haov, rij, [w]heg and who, come, on, you know what I mean, as well as [h]orses.

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I will subscribe an old saing in English, as easy as any thing, if custom and fashion tnu it: _An As an Mul carrid Runlets ov Wine, But d' Ass did gron undr er burdn gret: Qo'd' Mul, Modr, wat al u dus to win?

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