Did people in the eighteenth century use the word ‘fuck’ in everyday language? Quentin Outram looks at swear words in BBC Two’s The Gallows Pole: A true story of resistance, and questions their authenticity. ‘Get your fucking hands off me!’ says David Hartley as people struggle to help him and from there on the use of ‘fuck’ and ‘fucking’ rarely stops for more than a … Continue reading I don’t know where he gets his fucking language from