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323: Flip Yeah Taboo Avoidance
English-Only makes a move as Strathfield Council in Sydney cracks down on foreign language shop signs. Listeners send us their favourite minced oaths, both from English and from other languages. Sometimes taboo avoidance changes language. Words of the Week: schmeat, gyre, t-rexing
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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English-Only makes a move as Strathfield Council in Sydney cracks down on foreign language shop signs. Listeners send us their favourite minced oaths, both from English and from other languages. Sometimes taboo avoidance changes language. Words of the Week: schmeat, gyre, t-rexing
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