The C word - and I don’t means COVID or Christmas!

Anyway, more to the point, Atqui who was your husband referring to?
Was is B***s?

FannyCornforth

Atqui it seems that your thread is morphing into asterisk pedantry!

It was more that I thought they were words that I didn’t know!

Atqui

Riverwalk I am guilty of a typo. Presume other posters saw the context and overlooked that!

I was Googling 'five letter swear words beginning with C!

At first I assumed it was THE C word but the extra * had me investigating in case there was another word!

Atqui it seems that your thread is morphing into asterisk pedantry!

Vile word...

Atqui, is your husband someone who uses language like this normally? Did he know you were present? I get the impression from your post that this is not the kind of stuff you are used to from him. If that is the case, and he didn’t have cause to be exceptionally angry, it may be a clue to some early loss of inhibition which may indicate health issues. Nothing to worry about as a one-off, but if it marks a change in his use of language, a trip to the GP might be useful.

Cross post Emily.
I always try to identify my errors before others do.

Riverwalk I am guilty of a typo. Presume other posters saw the context and overlooked that!

I can recall hearing a colleague (very senior) say "what constitutes acceptable profanity depends on the context in which the obscenities are voiced, the tone of the profanity, the target of the profanity, the audience listening to it or reading it, and the precise words that are used" and that's pretty much guided me.
There are words that I don't like and don't use but that's purely personal.
I spent a number of years working with ex-offenders, some of them were "rough" in the extreme and had committed very serious crimes. Interestingly, a lot of the men would swear in my presence but never directed at me as an individual.

Riverwalk I put too many asterisks in my lady-part swear word too, so it must be a thing.

It can't be the one that rhymes with Hunt, as it has a C and four asterisks, making it a five letter word. Or have I got this wrong hmm. I thought that!
And also Fanny saying the word t***t - again too many asterisks
Neither are very pleasant, but there are worse things to worry about?

Oh I too hate that word! I have been known to drop the odd F* when really angry and incensed about something, but I loathe the c word.

Fannycornforth “What I really hate about it is that it's seen as ^the absolute worst thing that you can call someone^; as if a woman's genitals are that abominable.”
Sums up my feelings exactly

I haven't led a sheltered life but for the life of me I can't think what the word is!

It can't be the one that rhymes with Hunt, as it has a C and four asterisks, making it a five letter word. Or have I got this wrong

I’d be mortified if my husband used the c word. This man we used to know, who had a very high profile in the legal profession, used to describe people he didn’t like as c’s with bars’ which I thought was even worse and I am sure if the press got hold of it they would have him for breakfast.

I did think it yesterday when my car was hemmed in and I couldn’t move it

The fiercest word I heard in the family home was " damn " and I'd know that dad was upset about something or someone.

What I hear now is stomach churning.

I don't use it but have spent a lot of time in Ireland where it is used often.

Each to their own, we all use words or phrases others do not like.

My DH loathes it
It all depends on your own feelings about it. Don't take it too much to heart, you husband obviously has different feelings to you about it.
A bit like how people have different phobias... I'm finding it difficult to explain, I'm sorry!
I remember using the word t***t in front of a boyfriend's parents - I thought that it was just the same as prat or twit. It still doesn't provoke the same visceral feelings as the c word.
What I really hate about it is that it's seen as ^the absolute worst thing that you can call someone^; as if a woman's genitals are that abominable.
Whereas a prick or dick is just a bit of a fool.
So to sum up, I'd be upset too, but I'd know that it was probably an overreaction.

No, DH wouldn't use it, and he knows I will walk out of the room if he lets slip certain other four letter words. I had a very sheltered upbringing, only coming across the F word written in graffiti on the tube and having to ask my DH (then fiance) what it meant! I cringe every time someone uses it on the TV, couldn't believe it the first time it was deemed acceptable.

Not a word Mr. B or anybody else of my acquaintance ever uses.

In print not win